I decided to clean up my sons laptop and delete some of the junk. Whereupon it suffered a serious crash !! Nothing would restore or re-install from
hard drive.
It's a Me machine and fortunately I had a full copy to re-install. However it did not require a complete re-install but a partial before it
sprang into life again.
i then looked around for the cause and was quite disturbed to find it was an mp3 with replay that had crashed the machine. I did a search on the net
and whilst checking came across this:-
Sony
I then checked over said machine and found some fragments of the rookit on that machine.
Checking with said son it appears a few weeks ago he borrowed a Sony protected music disc and played it. Seems the rootkit was installed on his
machine and I had somehow triggered it trying to delete the copied mp3 and stuff.
I now wonder if this resides on other machines. I'm going to run the Rootkit check to see.
Yes there was a lot of publicity about this in computer circles. Sony recalled thousands of CDs after microsoft said that rootkit matched its
definition of spyware, and so was bringing out a patch to counter it.
David
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Originally posted by flak monkey
Yes there was a lot of publicity about this in computer circles. Sony recalled thousands of CDs after microsoft said that rootkit matched its definition of spyware, and so was bringing out a patch to counter it.
David