Spyware Hiding In Online Media Files
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As if online downloaders don’t have enough to worry about (rightly or wrongly), now they have to worry about spyware being buried within the media files they download.
I don’t think this is what Marshall McLuhan had in mind.
According to a report in InformationWeek, hackers are taking advantage of certain “features” of the Windows Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme to load all sorts of spyware, adware, viruses, and other nasty things onto an unsuspecting user’s computer.
When a user downloads a digital media file, the Windows DRM program…
