, SecurityFocus 2006-01-16
WASHINGTON D.C. -- Hundreds of thousands of networks across the globe, including many military and government networks, appear to still contain PCs with the controversial copy-protection software installed by music discs sold by media giant Sony BMG, a security researcher told attendees at the ShmooCon hacking conference this weekend.
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My wife has her own PC and only plays legit CDs on the machine (we do not do music downloads) ? she does not have a clue how to use BitTorrent, Kazaa etc.
When I did a routine anti-virus / Trojan check on her machine a while ago I discovered the Sony RootKit.
This is in the UK.
So, a few possibilities.
Maybe Sony lied about the distribution (and possibly the number of infected CDs).
Maybe the distribution information is limited ? the CDs may have started off in the US, but maybe they were sold on to other legitimate retailers.
A great many of our CD purchases have been made online ? there's no way to know where that supplier obtained their CDs ? the market is global after all. ? I would assume its quite possible a UK (or often Jersey) based retailer may have found the cheapest price on CDs sourced from the US ? after all the UK has a deserved reputation for rip off expensive CD prices so I am quite happy to allow the fact that they are cheaper to bulk wholesale import from the states than source from more locally based bulk wholesale resellers..
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