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Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil
From: Dragos Ruiu <dr () kyx net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:10:23 -0700
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 -- World Security Pros. Cutting Edge Training, Tools, and Techniques Tokyo, Japan Nov 11-12 2004 http://pacsec.jp pgpkey http://dragos.com/ kyxpgp
Current thread:
- Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil Dragos Ruiu (Jun 16)
- Re: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil Shaun Lipscombe (Jun 18)
- Re: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil KF (lists) (Jun 18)
- Re: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil PC Sage (Jun 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil Chris Merkel (Jun 18)
- Re: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil Ron Thigpen (Jun 21)
- Re: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil Jonas Mixter (Jun 22)
- Re: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 26)
- RE: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil Ross M. W. Bennetts (Jun 28)
- Re: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil Ron Thigpen (Jun 21)