“A computer security firm said Thursday it had discovered the first virus that uses music publisher Sony BMG’s controversial CD copy-protection software to hide on PCs and wreak havoc,” Reuters reports. “Under a subject line containing the words ‘Photo approval,’ a hacker has mass-mailed the so-called Stinx-E trojan virus to British e-mail addresses, said British anti-virus firm Sophos. When recipients click on an attachment, they install malware, which may tear down the firewall and gives hackers access to a PC. The malware hides by using Sony software that is also hidden — the software would have been installed on a computer when consumers played Sony’s copy-protected music CDs.”
Reuters reports, “‘This leaves Sony in a real tangle. It was already getting bad press about its copy-protection software, and this new hack exploit will make it even worse,’ said Sophos’s Graham Cluley. Sony BMG’s spokesman John McKay, in New York, was not immediately available to comment.”
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Karma’s a bitch, huh, Sony?
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Beauty, eh?
EMI, are you watching?
Sony has nothing to worry about. Microsoft hasn’t ever gotten into trouble, so why should they? : )
somebody will be committing hari-kari soon…
Best MDN take I have read!
MDN word: again
Sony has nothing to worry about. Microsoft hasn’t ever gotten into trouble, so why should they? : )
“Why worry?” – Alfred E. Neuman (MAD Magazine)
Why should they worry? That’s simple…they’re not Microsoft.
Sorry, I just realized the Alfred E Neuman quote is actually “What, me worry?”
Magic Word is “trial”…how ironic.
Bawhhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Seriously, who is to blame on this one? Microsoft? Sony? I’d blame Microsoft for creating such a security mess with Windows…..
that’s freakin funny…bunch o morons
This made my whole week!
Celine Dion .. Sarah McLachlan .. who’s next?
Which unfortunate Canadians will be the next to taste the bitter poison of Sony’s evil virus cloak? The Prime Minister? The Quebeqois? Tim Horton?
Sony must be made to regret these horrible anti-Canadian insults!
DOWN WITH SONY!
What the fsk was $ony thinking? Dumb asses!
The lawyers are salivating over this thing. I bet their all breaking red lights to the court house and fighting in the parking lots. Kind of like someone was selling iBooks for $50.
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I predict a major reaming with out lubricants for $ony over this.
The $ony corp image is going into the toilet with consumers on this one. They just can’t seem to get their heads out of their asses (no pun intended®)
Yikes!
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Delicious.
Let’s build an OS so full of holes that a music CD can install deadly malware without needing the user’s permission first!
— Bill Gates
schadenfreude! heh heh heh
Defined as
Main Entry: scha·den·freu·de
Pronunciation: ‘shä-d&n-“froi-d&
Function: noun
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: German, from Schaden damage + Freude joy
: enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others