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New Version of Apple iTunes Is Spyware
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New Version of Apple iTunes Is Spyware
TedF a écrit :
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/...056/49056.html iTunes sends account and user data to the store of Apple. OK it *is* spyware. Can anyone here tell me for sure that Windows Media Player doesn't do the same? It connects very quickly to Virgin Megastore, and some of the ads it displays are very interesting... it is as if it knew what music I like. Mmmmmm.... Can I be *certain* that WMP doesn't do the same? Thanks jacob |
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My opinion is no. I tend to agree with comments
below the article I don't like the new feature but it is not spyware as far as i'm concerned... Mike |
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All trying to get piece of the pie.
We are the guinea pigs, many thanks to all, specially MS. That is why I try to stay away from all the new bull$hit, rather buy my own CDs and DVDs. "jacob navia" wrote in message ... TedF a écrit : http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/...056/49056.html iTunes sends account and user data to the store of Apple. OK it *is* spyware. Can anyone here tell me for sure that Windows Media Player doesn't do the same? It connects very quickly to Virgin Megastore, and some of the ads it displays are very interesting... it is as if it knew what music I like. Mmmmmm.... Can I be *certain* that WMP doesn't do the same? Thanks jacob |
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New Version of Apple iTunes Is Spyware
We will soon see, if government officials and watchdog
groups after them. "Mike Gleason jr Couturier" wrote in message ... My opinion is no. I tend to agree with comments below the article I don't like the new feature but it is not spyware as far as i'm concerned... Mike |
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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:22:22 -0800, "TedF" wrote:
We will soon see, if government officials and watchdog groups after them. You can always try Quicktime Alternative: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...lternative.htm jud |
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New Version of Apple iTunes Is Spyware
"TedF" wrote in message
... That is why I try to stay away from all the new bull$hit, rather buy my own CDs and DVDs. Hope you didn't buy any Sony music CDs! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11...y_rootkit_drm/ Rootkits are one of the nastiest things ever devised, and they dig their evil nails so deeply into your system that you cannot then believe anything that your compuer tells you. Sony's particular rootkit seems to be spectacularly nasty, apparently leaving you with a crippled machine that has to be reformatted to get it working properly again if you discover it and try to remove it! Mike |
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"Mike Williams" wrote in message
... Hope you didn't buy any Sony music CDs! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11...y_rootkit_drm/ Rootkits are one of the nastiest things ever devised, and they dig their evil nails so deeply into your system that you cannot then believe anything that your compuer tells you. Sony's particular rootkit seems to be spectacularly nasty, apparently leaving you with a crippled machine that has to be reformatted to get it working properly again if you discover it and try to remove it! Mike fwiw, here's a utility that'll scan your PC for rootkits and remove any it finds. I ran it once and didn't find anything (I don't play music at work and not often in my PC at home so I'm not surprised). Warning.... the process is no where near "fast".. even on a 3.2ghz P4 (work) or AMD64 3000 or 3500 (home)... all with multiple gigs of ram.. Just let it run and do its work. Sysinternals Freeware - RootkitRevealer http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...tRevealer.html The Sysinternals home page has more info on rootkits and Sony. -- Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB - Please keep all discussions in the groups.. DLL Hell problems? Try ComGuard - http://www.vbsight.com/ComGuard.htm Freeware 4 color Gradient Frame? http://www.vbsight.com/GradFrameCTL.htm |
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"Ken Halter" wrote in message
... fwiw, here's a utility that'll scan your PC for rootkits and remove any it finds. I ran it once and didn't find anything (I don't play music at work and not often in my PC at home so I'm not surprised). Yep. I do know about various rootkit removal tools. I think the problem with the specific Sony rootkit though is that removing it (either manually or with an approperiate removal tool) does damage to your computer that can only be fully repaired with a full reformat. That situation might have changed by now (these things are changing all the time), but as far as I know the problem still remains, even with a rootkit removal tool. I haven't check the latest rootkit removal tool offerings, so things may have changed by now in this respect. By the way, regarding your comment that you don't play music on your PC, rootkits are not specific to music CDs. A rootkit is the current "leading edge techology" of the virus writers, and more and more of them will appear as time goes on, so you'll have to be careful what programs and applications you run (whether those programs came in a downlaod or from a web page or from a CD that you insert into your machine). Tha really nasty thing about the Sonty rootkit though is that unlike most other viruses (which often come from "dodgy" sources) this particular Sony virus came from a previously well respected company and it was secretly installed on your machine by means of a legitimate music CD that you bought and paid the full price for in a store. Thoroughly nasty! Okay, I know that Sony (at least in Europe) have recently been forced by EEC legislation to stop selling CDs containing rootkits, but I think they are still on sale in other parts of the world. Mike |
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Thanks for the info.
Very little said about removing rootkit and fixing the computer. The damage could not be more than Roxio 5.0 CD drivers, which cripples the CD drive all together in WinXP. Hope you didn't buy any Sony music CDs! The new music hardly turn me on, I am more into classic rock. I rather have the rootkit than see a rapper pointing to what is between his legs. I do buy many DVDs though, wonder if they have a rootkit for that. "Mike Williams" wrote in message ... "TedF" wrote in message ... That is why I try to stay away from all the new bull$hit, rather buy my own CDs and DVDs. Hope you didn't buy any Sony music CDs! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11...y_rootkit_drm/ Rootkits are one of the nastiest things ever devised, and they dig their evil nails so deeply into your system that you cannot then believe anything that your compuer tells you. Sony's particular rootkit seems to be spectacularly nasty, apparently leaving you with a crippled machine that has to be reformatted to get it working properly again if you discover it and try to remove it! Mike |
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