Re: (TV) bummer

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <20051209135514.4941eaeb.jh@brainiac.com>, Joe Hartley 
<jh@brainiac.com> writes
> Not so - those of us not under the thrall of MickeySoft haven't had our 
> machines compromised at all.

Funny you should say that Joe, I just read this:
"Sony Music CDs infect Macs, too
"On Macintouch today, Darren Dittrich reports that Sony's DRM software 
targets Macs too. Digging into the "enhanced" content on the disk, he 
found a Start.app that, when run, shows a license agreement, then asks 
you for an admin password. On entering this, it installs two kernel 
extensions, PhoenixNub1.kext and PhoenixNub12.kext."

Note that these aren't the rootkits that infect Windows PCs -- Sony's 
Mac crippleware comes from a different vendor called Suncomm."

and this:
" Mac users shouldn't be smug -- Sony's audio CDs also contain an app 
that patches OS X's kernel with unspecified restriction-software; though 
Mac users have to take a few more steps before their computers are 
compromised"
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