News Virus pits itself against music pirates

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  1. GreatOldOne

    GreatOldOne Wannabe Martian

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    The latest vigilante virus to hit the net is after your MP3 collection, according to security advisories issued by Sophos. This from news.com:

    A hacker has created a virus that targets music lovers by deleting MP3 files on infected computers, according to antivirus company Sophos.

    The worm, dubbed Nopir.B, spreads over peer-to-peer networks and appears to have originated in France, security researchers at Sophos said Friday.

    Nopir.B is designed to look like a DVD-cracking program, to fool people looking for a program that will circumvent copy-restriction technology on the discs. When the worm is downloaded and run, it attempts to delete all MP3 music files and wipe some programs from the infected PC, the company said in its advisory.    ​

    More here

    Of course, no one would be downloading DVD crackers, would they... ;)
     
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  2. kickarse

    kickarse What's a Dremel?

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    yeah everyone should be safe here *cough* right *cough*
     
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  3. RotoSequence

    RotoSequence Lazy Lurker

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    Oh I really wonder what kind of organization made this application :rolleyes:
     
    RotoSequence, 25 Apr 2005
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  4. quack

    quack Minimodder

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    Apart from AnyDVD, no. :D
     
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  5. webbyman

    webbyman Hax.

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    :hehe: yep everyone should be safe here... :worried:
     
    webbyman, 25 Apr 2005
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  6. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    Well seeing as the DVD encryption tends to violate fair-use rights... But I have all the software I need anyways (dvd decrypter/autogk anyone?).

    Anyways... what a stupid virus. Not that any are good, but this one's actually annoying.
     
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  7. Lowsidex2

    Lowsidex2 Minimodder

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    RIAA playing dirty?
     
    Lowsidex2, 26 Apr 2005
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  8. taliban_raider

    taliban_raider Just some guy; you know

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    Again......
     
    taliban_raider, 26 Apr 2005
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  9. scotty6435

    scotty6435 What's a Dremel?

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    Got this program and it rules.

    WHY put copyright notices on a product aht everyone knows can'tbe copied legally. Now i don't even have to view the trailers at the start of some DVDs :)

    RIAA are getting despirate. They've probably just realised that there's no way "We'll sue you!!! rar rar!!" will put people off copying and distributing films.... especially when us Brits have to wait sometimes 6 months for films to be released in the cinema.... and a LOT longer for DVDs.
     
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  10. Ubermich

    Ubermich He did it!

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    But why hire a frenchman to do it? Because we don't already hate the french enough!? :p
     
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  11. Kipman725

    Kipman725 When did I get a custom title!?!

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    my dvd drive is rubbish so it stutters while playing dvds but it's still Possible to rip a dvd and play it from the hard disk.... shame dvds are about 8gb :eek:*


    *damm good job storage space is cheep and there are lots of pcs in the house to store stuff on :hehe:
     
    Kipman725, 26 Apr 2005
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