Help with a Virus?

[Guest 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

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

Re: Help with a Virus?

 

Pool-Boy wrote:

> 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

[Guest Still learning]

Re: Help with a Virus?

 

delete the program and do a system restore?

 

"Pool-Boy" <PoolBoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:3771EAAC-A0FF-410E-9DF0-757652E67030@microsoft.com...

>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

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Help with a Virus?

 

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:55:00 -0700, Pool-Boy

<PoolBoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> 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.

 

--

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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[Guest p]

Re: Help with a Virus?

 

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:55:00 -0700, Pool-Boy

> <PoolBoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>

>> 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.

>

 

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

[Guest John]

Re: Help with a Virus?

 

sue sony.

 

"Pool-Boy" <PoolBoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:3771EAAC-A0FF-410E-9DF0-757652E67030@microsoft.com...

>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

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: Help with a Virus?

 

Pool-Boy wrote:

> 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.

[Guest Doum]

Re: Help with a Virus?

 

"HeyBub" <heybub@gmail.com> écrivait

news:OtTY8Aw2IHA.4988@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> Pool-Boy wrote:

>> 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.

>

>

 

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

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Help with a Virus?

 

 

 

Doum wrote:

> "HeyBub" <heybub@gmail.com> écrivait

> news:OtTY8Aw2IHA.4988@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

>

>

>>Pool-Boy wrote:

>>

>>>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.

>>

>>

>

>

> 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

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: Help with a Virus?

 

Doum wrote:

>>

>> 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)

>

 

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.

[Guest William R. Walsh]

Re: Help with a Virus?

 

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