Wednesday, June 23, 2004

BEASTIE BOYS: TROJAN HORSES: It seems that the 'copy protection' that Ad-Rock and the other Beasties had been trying to stop appearing on the non-US and UK versions of the new album is actually worse than it seemed at first: To The Five Boroughs actually installs a virus on computers it's played on, reports users of the BugTraq forum:

It seems that Capitol Records has some sort of new copy protection system, that automatically, silently, installs "helpful" copy protection software on MacOS and Windows as soon as you insert the CD into default systems. I'm not sure exactly what it does yet, but I am sure regreting actually purchasing said media now... they don't deserve my money if they choose to pull stupid stunts like this. Installing software without your permission sounds like viral malware behaviour to me. I certainly hope the AV companies put signatures into their products for this crap.
They include some sort of uninstaller buried on there for Windows, but I see no such thing for MacOS. If anyone has disassembled the aforementioned malware already and can save us some time with instructions on how to remove it... thanks in advance.


1 comment:

Jody said...

that is totally outrageous!

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