Re: Stupid DRM (Score 1)

I'm not sure it's fair to casually attribute an infection from such an exploit to user stupidity. The first reason being that it sounds like the format was intentionally designed to allow this extra functionality. The second reason being that the way it's described sounds very similar to the kind of behavior that is sometimes encountered while using a subscription music service like Yahoo Unlimited or Netflix's 'Watch Now' feature. In the description it mentions that if the user plays the (infected) music file, IE launches and prompts them to download a codec. To me, this doesn't sound so much like typical malicious behavior as it does typical Windows-DRM behavior. I could see how someone who has spent much time using DRM'd WMAs might be conditioned to assume that behavior like this was just par for the course.