Sony New Piracy Protection Opens New Virus Pathways

[neocell]

This is probably in the wrong forum, so mods please move it (I thought it should go into the MacBytes News one but...)
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNe...11/sony_cd_piracy_051111/20051111?hub=SciTech

The Trojan horse programs — three have so far been identified by antivirus companies — are named so as to trigger the cloaking feature of Sony's XCP2 antipiracy technology.

By piggybacking on that function, the malicious programs can enter undetected, security experts said Thursday.

Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the company that developed the software, First 4 Internet, have claimed that the technology poses no security threat.

Still, Sony posted a patch last week that uncloaks files hidden by the software.

On Thursday, Sony released a statement "deeply regretting any disruption that this may have caused."

Nice going Sony

 

[freeny]

Thread already taken...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/160964/

 

[neocell]

Sorry, searched before posting, but obviously not the right words (sony, copy-protection, trojan etc.) but now reading the linked thread I can see why my search didn't come up with it. Sorry for inconvenience. Mods please delete