HTM|JaK_5quat
01-25-2006, 03:32 PM
If you play CD’s on your Windows machine and you’ve ever put a Sony CD in you may have been “infected” with Sony’s invasive DRM software XCP. To find out, choose Run and type “cmd /k sc query $sys$aries” without the quotes of course.
If the response is “STATE: 4 RUNNING” you have the software. If you see instead “The specified service does not exist…” then you’re clean.
My machine is clean. I run all music on my Mac, which is not vulnerable to this software. I bought a Sony music CD recently that my Mac would just not recognize (spin-up, spit out) and I suspect that it had this software on it. Glad I didn’t put it in my PC.
If the response is “STATE: 4 RUNNING” you have the software. If you see instead “The specified service does not exist…” then you’re clean.
My machine is clean. I run all music on my Mac, which is not vulnerable to this software. I bought a Sony music CD recently that my Mac would just not recognize (spin-up, spit out) and I suspect that it had this software on it. Glad I didn’t put it in my PC.