Re: Sony DRM CDs infect Macs, too

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

That'll show all you smug Mac bastards!

                                BB

Fergie wrote:
> Via Boing Boing.
>
> [snip]
>
> Simon sez, "On Macintouch today, Darren Dittrich reports that Sony's DRM software targets Macs too. Digging into the 
> "enhanced" content on the disk, he found a Start.app that, when run, shows a license agreement, then asks you for an admin password. 
> On entering this, it installs two kernel extensions, PhoenixNub1.kext and PhoenixNub12.kext."
>
> Note that these aren't the rootkits that infect Windows PCs -- Sony's Mac crippleware comes from a different vendor 
> called Suncomm.
>
> [snip]
>
> http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/10/sony_music_cds_infec.html
>
> - ferg
>
>
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