SONY announced the installation of XCP CD to suspend production to solve the malicious attacks

Yesky November 13th (King compilation) the news on Friday, the Sony Corp announced a temporary halt to production and installation of copyrighted software CD. Previously, hackers released malware, and by SONY Bertelsmann's pirated software to send computer attacks.

SONY spokesman John McKay said the company temporarily decided to stop production of the installation of XCP protection software CD, he did not disclose when to restore the production of such CD. However, according to XCP developers, they are writing a new copyright protection software program, the new software will not cause harm to users.

XCP is developed by UK software developer First 4 Internet specifically for SONY. This year, this software is officially on the market, it can limit the number of users to copy CD. According to, a security firm, on Thursday, a variant of the Trojan horse program began to spread over the Internet using XCP software, one of which is called Sophos

Stinx-E, which is disguised as an image on the Internet, once the user clicks, this malware can use SONY's anti piracy software technology hidden in the system