$ony have halted the inclusion of what is being called the ‘XCP virus’ on its CDs after the number of legal problems that it’s facing increases.<\/p>\n
EFF has put out a guide to how to spot if your CDs contain XCP<\/a>. That site has a list of 19 of the 20 titles that $ony have put this trojan<\/a> onto, but, as is pointed out in Geoffrey McCaleb’s blog, the official number of 20 is being spoken in legalese: $ony might only have released 20 CDs containing the rootkit, but $ony subsidiary companies<\/em> currently have 47 titles (that have been found so far). For a list of the titles currently identified, check out his blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n $ony says that this problem is only on CDs sold in the US, but, with the international market being what it is, it wouldn’t be surprising if this is a global problem. $ony are being invetigated by the Italian police<\/a> for distributing malicious code, so at least one other country is taking legal action other than the US.<\/p>\n Currently there doesn’t appear to be an easy solution to removing the software, but Mirco$oft have decided that the code does indeed count as spyware so will be releasing an addition to their anti-spyware software in the next month (source<\/a>) and other spyware comapanies such as Sophos say that they will have a removal system in place inside a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" $ony have halted the inclusion of what is being called the ‘XCP virus’ on its CDs after the number of legal problems that it’s facing increases. EFF has put out a guide to how to spot if your CDs contain XCP. That site has a list of 19 of the 20 titles that $ony have … Continue reading Getting to grips with the $ony rootkit<\/span>