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RIAA/MPAA Contractor Deploys Malicious Adware Trojans
RichardX writes "Overpeer, the organization responsible for seeding many peer to peer networks with damaged, corrupt and fake files has now found a way of hiding spyware and adware inside Windows Media files by using a DRM loophole and is using this technique to further pollute p2p networks." Several readers sent in a PCworld article on the same subject.
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You mis-spelled moron.
Still butthurt over the election huh? Cause i'm sure this wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't a single republican on the planet right?
Actually it was meant in a derogatory way. It is a safe assumption that any sort of whining about Republicans at this point in time comes from a clueless moonbat who only knows that their pussy is sore.
http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/31/1 553231
For a senior programmer you are sure retarded. Seems like your "superior" thinking has finally gotten the best of you and allowed you to lapse into what I call Linux Jihad State. One could easily accomplish your desired outcome by learning to secure Microsoft technologies, as opposed to not using them at all. Let's face it, Linux is a bloated, unstable, useless piece of shit, requiring a massive amount of time, energy and experience. Just like you and your mom. Fucking retarded dumbass
Really, it's a reason to steer clear of Microsoft. I don't think I'll have a problem using Xine. At the same time, I'll never make and distribute anything in those stupid formats. Why should I when the vast majority of the installed base will no longer trust the format and not be able to distinguish it from it's player?
This is a really big blow to Microsoft. The whole point of using their platform is to have easy access to the latest and greatest multimedia gadgets. Yet here you are not being able to trust the only player Microsoft wants you to have. At this rate, what's the point?
Don't give me BS about not having to worry if you are not into music sharing. The crackers and virus writers will be all over this backdoor and we'll soon see full auto worms propagating without any assistance from Joe Sixpacks, hapless Microsoft operator.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
"Linux is a bloated, unstable, useless piece of shit,requiring a massive amount of time, energy and experience. Just like you and your mom."
Sounds like you don't have the capacity to install/use/maintain Linux so you're just going to bash it. Oh, and the mom joke. What are you, 12?
Grow up.
True, MS products do need to focus more on security but you're comparing apples to oranges.
So this simply forces good companies to spend that much more money on lawyers making sure they can't be found guilty of anything even remotely bad.
My heart bleeds for the corporations. They are given enormous protection in the law for free, and you are worried that they have to pay to have an attorney on the payroll?
If there is another terrorist attack on US soil, or wherever you live, I hope to god you're in it. I've never encountered someone so deserving of it. Once again, you're a sad sack of shit and a sorry excuse for a human being.