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ramtopsfrom the Big Picture comes this tale of Sony's latest DRM tactics.
add this to the Sysinternals story about Sony CDs installing a Rootkit on users' PCs without so much as a by your leave.
firstly, I will never buy Sony again, and secondly - yet again - I am so pleased that my Windows days are far behind me.
add this to the Sysinternals story about Sony CDs installing a Rootkit on users' PCs without so much as a by your leave.
firstly, I will never buy Sony again, and secondly - yet again - I am so pleased that my Windows days are far behind me.
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Date: 2005-11-03 10:19 am (UTC)Thankfully, I read "They’ll have to come up with a new approach to their rootkit sooner or later anyway, since system call hooking does not work at all on x64 64-bit versions of Windows." and breathed a sigh of relief as I'm now on WinXPx64 ...
Happy Birthday!
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Date: 2005-11-03 01:55 pm (UTC)I think I'll suggest a new advertising slogan for them: "Sony - redefining evil".