Help with a Virus?

[Pool-Boy]

I loaded a sony cd onto my coputer and was prompted to accept an anti
pirating program from Media Max. My AVG later flagged it as a virus, and
after a little reserch I found that it is a real problem to get rid of.

What should I do?

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[**::- Alias- ::**]

I loaded a sony cd onto my coputer and was prompted to accept an anti
pirating program from Media Max. My AVG later flagged it as a virus, and
after a little reserch I found that it is a real problem to get rid of.

What should I do?

Thanks in advance for any help

This may help:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/21/sonys-mediamax-spywa.html

That said, it would have never happened with a machine running an
operating system other than Windows.

Alias

 

[Still learning]

delete the program and do a system restore?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I loaded a sony cd onto my coputer and was prompted to accept an anti
pirating program from Media Max. My AVG later flagged it as a virus, and
after a little reserch I found that it is a real problem to get rid of.

What should I do?

Tell us the name of the virus.

 

[p]

Tell us the name of the virus.

It's called "Media Max", a creepy spyware that Sony installs before you
have to agree to an EULA.

See:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/21/sonys-mediamax-spywa.html

P

 

[HeyBub]

I loaded a sony cd onto my coputer and was prompted to accept an anti
pirating program from Media Max. My AVG later flagged it as a virus,
and after a little reserch I found that it is a real problem to get
rid of.

What should I do?

Thanks in advance for any help

It is common knowledge that one should not put any Sony stuff in the same
room with a computer. Check with their web site for their removal tool.

Sony is the greater Satan.

 

[Doum]

It is common knowledge that one should not put any Sony stuff in the
same room with a computer. Check with their web site for their removal
tool.

Sony is the greater Satan.

I have Sony's SoundForge, Vegas, Acid, CD Architect and DVD Architect
installed on my music making desktop and on my laptop; no garbage and no
problem there.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/Default.asp?language=1

(I am not related to the company, just a satisfied customer)

Doum

 

[Bob I]

"HeyBub" <[email protected]> écrivait





I have Sony's SoundForge, Vegas, Acid, CD Architect and DVD Architect
installed on my music making desktop and on my laptop; no garbage and no
problem there.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/Default.asp?language=1

(I am not related to the company, just a satisfied customer)

Doum

Please read up on the issue first.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Sony+Rootkit

 

[HeyBub]

I have Sony's SoundForge, Vegas, Acid, CD Architect and DVD Architect
installed on my music making desktop and on my laptop; no garbage and
no problem there.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/Default.asp?language=1

(I am not related to the company, just a satisfied customer)

Then you are a facilitator and enabler of the Greater Satan, one of the
lesser demons.

Note: This a different type of demon than buys stuff from spammers, signs
petitions unread, or pays to see a Michael Moore film.

 

[William R. Walsh]

Hi!

(MediaMax)

My AVG later flagged it as a virus, and after a little reserch I found
that
it is a real problem to get rid of.

What should I do?

Remove it if AVG can. You *don't* want it on your system, because it may
have known security vulnerabilities, and acts as though it were a rootkit in
some ways. This was quite the news a few years ago.

After you've gotten rid of it: Sony was replacing CDs in the US with this
infestation after a little "encouragement" from some class action lawsuits.
They may still be doing so--it would not hurt to check. Around this same
time, they also provided owners of CDs that were infested with this
"disease" an opportunity to retrieve DRM-free MP3 files by downloading them
from a Sony web site at the same time a replacement disc would be delivered.

If AVG cannot get rid of it, Sony also provided a removal tool. How well it
worked I cannot say...I have autorun turned off, read the entire CD label
before playing it (and they did say something about this on the label, which
earned their "quality hotline" an immediate call to report a serious
defect!) and then ripped the thing to MP3 format on a Mac. (Oh, I wasn't
supposed to do that?) <g>

William