On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:51:05 -0400, Roger
wrote in :

All of the above
go back to one and only, "screw the customer, we'll put root kits on
their computers as they wouldn't know what they are anyway", Sony.


http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5946760.html
On Thursday, a wave of malicious software appeared in the wild
that piggybacked on copy-protection technology installed on hard
drives by Sony BMG Music Entertainment CDs.

Computer security companies had been predicting such exploit code
in the wild for weeks, since an independent developer had exposed
the presence of a "rootkit" tool on the Sony CDs. The rootkit
technology hid the copy protection from view, but also left open a
hole that could hide other software.

Virus writers quickly took advantage of that hole, modifying an
old Trojan horse to take advantage of the powerful inadvertent
shielding provided by the Sony software.
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