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Re: Did Process Guard stop the Sony rootkit?

I'll bet 95% of PG users would have allowed the Sony rootkit to install if it wasn't so widely publicized.
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Re: Did Process Guard stop the Sony rootkit?

said by tstop :

I'll bet 95% of PG users would have allowed the Sony rootkit to install if it wasn't so widely publicized.
That may be true. But who would allow a player to be installed? I have PG and yes, I might have allowed the driver to install, but I would never allow the player to install so what does it matter? I guess Sony thinks everyone wants some proprietary player. That is the kicker for me. I got rid of Quicktime, WMP (except version 6.4), Real Player, Rhapsody, etc. I have Winamp and WMP 6.4 and if something won't play on those then I don't want it. People say DVD discs try to install the interactual player. Not on my computer they don't because Dell has antispyware to stop that. Again, why would anyone allow these proprietary players to install when you have your favorite player already and wish to use it?
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Re: Did Process Guard stop the Sony rootkit?

A lot of people are less... uh... 'careful' about installing software. But seriously, installing a player is one thing, but allowing something to install a driver is a massive no-no, if you don't even know what the driver does.
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said by tstop :

I'll bet 95% of PG users would have allowed the Sony rootkit to install if it wasn't so widely publicized.
I would have hoped that 95% of the people who have the nous to use ProcessGuard would also have sufficient knowledge and nous NOT to have installed the rootkit.
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