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Subject: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:10:23 -0700
From: Dragos Ruiu <dr () kyx net>
Organization: All Terrain Ninjas
To: bugtraq () securityfocus com

Well I truly regret actually purchasing a copy of the new Beastie Boys 
album to support them.

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.

caveat emptor,
--dr

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