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Hackers use DRM to plant massive amounts of spyware -
January 11th, 2005, 12:47 PM
Hackers Use DRM To Plant Massive Amounts Of Spyware
Hackers are turning digital rights management features of Microsoft's Windows Media Player against users by fooling them into downloading massive amounts of spyware, adware, and viruses. By TechWeb News Jan. 11, 2005 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story...cleID=57700514 Hackers are turning digital rights management features of Microsoft's Windows Media Player against users by fooling them into downloading massive amounts of spyware, adware, and viruses, security firms said Tuesday. According to anti-virus vendor Panda Software, two new Trojan horses -- dubbed WmvDownloader.a and WmvDownloader.b -- have been planted in video files seeded to peer-to-peer file-sharing networks like eMule and KaZaA. The Trojans take advantage of the new anti-piracy features in Windows Media Player 10 and Windows XP SP2 to trick users, said Panda. When a user tries to play a protected Windows media file, the anti-piracy technology demands a valid license; if that license is not stored locally, the player looks for it on the Internet so the user can download or purchase it. However, these Trojans only "pretend to download the corresponding license from certain Web pages," said Panda in its online alert. "What they actually do is redirect the user to other Internet addresses from which they download a large number of adware, spyware, dialers, and other viruses." Others, including Kaspersky Labs and Ben Edelman, a Harvard student and spyware researcher, have confirmed the effects of the two Trojans. Edelman's test of one of the Trojans on a clean PC demonstrated its impact. "I pressed 'Yes' once to allow the installation. My computer quickly became contaminated with the most spyware programs I have ever received in a single sitting...all told, the infection added 58 folders, 786 files, and an incredible 11,915 registry entries to my computer." Copyright © 2004 CMP Media LLC You can post anonymous (dot) . No registration required! BEST emoticons ever! http://www.whofailedtoday.com/newbbs/viewforum.php?id=1. |
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January 11th, 2005, 02:06 PM
this proves that even 'smart' people can be had
11,915 registry entries..wow ....somewhere ...someone is laughing so hard ...they must be sh!tting in their pants You can post anonymous (dot) . No registration required! BEST emoticons ever! http://www.whofailedtoday.com/newbbs/viewforum.php?id=1. |
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January 11th, 2005, 03:05 PM
Well that sucks, but i dont download WMP files, whether its audio or a video, just dont trust it.
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January 11th, 2005, 04:54 PM
Just don't allow that WMV to download the license & remove that video from your hard drive!
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January 11th, 2005, 05:14 PM
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even better idea--don't download the wmv, don't install wmp 10, and get media player classic anyone stupid enough to download a wma/wmv deserves whatever they get (p.s. this exploit is going to be HUGE for porn sites) |
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February 8th, 2005, 11:10 AM
Oh no! Not the porn sites!
I got fucked last week. Not really sure how but this may have been how it happened. wmvs are off my list. Shitty shit |
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February 8th, 2005, 01:03 PM
DRM = Dirty, Rotten Media/Malware
My only experience with DRM is when it just came out I was dl'ing stuff from consumptionjunction. Practically all the videos required 'licences' to play, so I dl'ed them onto my bro's machine. That said, I've never had anything with DRM from BT, only some password protected self-extracting RAR's which needed a password obtainable from a website/forum. /// |
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February 8th, 2005, 01:49 PM
OLD NEWS
WMV files have been boobytrapped for years, gotta love how MS allows DATA files to trigger web access and EXECUTION of scripts. |
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February 9th, 2005, 02:49 AM
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But your still a dizzy idiot. -infringer- By the MPAA... ______________________________________________ | I | illegal downloading inappropriate for all ages. | |
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February 9th, 2005, 02:56 AM
theres not a damn thing wrong with .wmv/wma files --- its all in where you get em
people could just as easyly do that with any other file |
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February 9th, 2005, 04:32 AM
No, this could not happen with other video files, wmv files call home for a licence (DRM) but people are replacing that with trojans. Other video files like divx can not do this. But it is true that you have to be carefull where you get them
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February 9th, 2005, 04:49 AM
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well Divx can do that as far as I can guess----- I downloaded a movie in Divx about a retared guy that made it pretty far and had a freind named BABA --- when ever you start it ,it trys to take you to a web site , so yeah I belive Divx could do that if somone tryed enough to put that crap in there |
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February 9th, 2005, 05:05 AM
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I have never had a media file take me to a web page. :hole |
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February 9th, 2005, 05:07 AM
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well your lucky or smart : ) I got that file a long time ago like5 yeras ago |
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February 9th, 2005, 05:14 AM
What you probably got, which I have seen, is a wmv file with the file extension changed. I very well could be wrong but Im fairly sure no divx files do this.
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