jimnms
06-23-2004, 02:19 PM
A new Beastie Boys' CD called "To the Five Boroughs" (Capitol Records), is raising hackles around the Web for reputedly infecting computers with a virus.
According to a recent thread at BugTraq, an executable file is automatically and silently installed on the user's machine when the CD is loaded. The file is said to be a driver that prevents users from ripping the CD (and perhaps others), and attacks both Windows boxen and Macs.
Full Story (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/23/beastie_boy_cd_virus/)
I already have autoplay disabled on my machine, mainly because it's anoying.
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Learn from the mistakes of others, you won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.
According to a recent thread at BugTraq, an executable file is automatically and silently installed on the user's machine when the CD is loaded. The file is said to be a driver that prevents users from ripping the CD (and perhaps others), and attacks both Windows boxen and Macs.
Full Story (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/23/beastie_boy_cd_virus/)
I already have autoplay disabled on my machine, mainly because it's anoying.
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Learn from the mistakes of others, you won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.