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  Hackers Use DRM To Plant Massive Amounts Of Spyware
Time: 14:08 EST/19:08 GMT | News Source: InformationWeek | Posted By: Brian Kvalheim

Hackers are turning digital rights management features of Microsoft's Windows Media Player against users by fooling them into downloading massive amounts of spyware, adware, and viruses, security firms said Tuesday. According to anti-virus vendor Panda Software, two new Trojan horses -- dubbed WmvDownloader.a and WmvDownloader.b -- have been planted in video files seeded to peer-to-peer file-sharing networks like eMule and KaZaA. The Trojans take advantage of the new anti-piracy features in Windows Media Player 10 and Windows XP SP2 to trick users, said Panda.

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#1 By 2960 (156.80.64.203) at Wednesday, January 12, 2005 01:26:58 PM
"If you use Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and Windows Media Player 10, you are completely protected. "

LOL! Gotta love a statement that is surely to go down in infamy.

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