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Posted by Tim Scott Mathews on 11/26/05 00:16
Frankly, after this, I'm surprised anyone would ever buy from Sony again.
My feeling is simply that they are completely untrustworty. I cannot
believe that there's not some sort of law against this sort of thing.
Disgusting, absolutely disgusting and I would not by any Sony product, EVER
again for ANY price! The best thing the world could do would be to just
let them fade away and let that event be a lesson to anyone else to NEVER
try something like that again.
"Goro" <evilninjax@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> Rich wrote:
>> More Sony horror:
>>
>> Sony's rootkit uninstaller is *really* dangerous
>> Following on the November 13 research about Sony's rootkit
>> "uninstaller" leaving your computer vulnerable to attacks like
>> rebooting it by inserting malicious code in a web-page, Princeton
>> researchers Ed Felten and Alex Halderman announces that they have
>> discovered far more serious problems with the software and warn
>> against installing it at all, promising prompt full disclosure (they
>> publis this the next day, along with some instructions for defending
>> yourself if you've run the uninstaller)
>>
>
> This is actually relatively "old" news as even SOny has acknowedged teh
> problems with the "uninstaller" (it's actually an ActiveX control) and
> has removed it from their website. THey are providing (or getting
> ready to provide) a true uninstaller.
>
> btw, the security hole that teh first uninstaller created is far worse
> than allowing website to reboot your machine; webpages can run ANY
> unsigned code on your computer.
>
> -goro-
>
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