[Gllug] Sony Protected CD's apparently installing rootkits...

Rob Crowther robertc at boogdesign.com
Tue Nov 1 18:35:30 UTC 2005


Junior Williamson wrote:
> Has anyone else on the list heard of this sort of thing from a major 
> manufacturer?
> 
I presume this is the same sort of thing as the SunnComm DRM system:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/09/sunncomm_to_sue_shift_key/

In which case you are safe if you have previously disabled autorun on 
your CD drives?  (Or are running Linux...)

Rob
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