On Nov 11, 2005, at 6:59 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Christopher Smith wrote:
[snip]> I'm glad (for now!) that I'm unaffected by this. Of course, at
any time
that may change...
[snip]
One thing I have NOT seen in all these discussions is a list of the
CDs that had that awful stuff on them, so we can avoid purchasing them
and if we already own them, avoid using them on our computers.
Has anybody seen such a list?
Here's a partial list, from the original post:
The EFF has made a list of CD's being affected with this software:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004144.php
But when it says "Content Protected" on the label and you see mention
of the word "XCP" in the fine print that you should probably worry.
In response to someone who said it WAS removable, my understanding is
that removing it disables your CD drive. I don't know enough about PCs
to comment, but a pretty smart guy (Mark Russinovich) with some
sophisticated tools, some of which he wrote himself, spent a lot of
time to get his system back into shape. How many casual users have that
kind of knowledge?
But on the plus side, disabling "Auto run" prevents it.
(Macs have this option, too. I remember one virus years ago that I
never got, but the inoculation was turn off auto play for cds.)
Christopher
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