If you buy a music CD from Sony, beware: I got astounded after reading this post at Slashdot, in which they say that if you insert a Sony music CD in your Windows OS Computer, a RootKit is automatically installed.

A RootKit is a program which hides itself from your Computer OS and of course, from you. In some ways it’s very similar to a trojan and, once installed, it becomes really hard to get rid of. In fact, Sony’s version does not seems to be uninstallable (you can ask for its removal at Sony web, though).

Mark Russinovich revealed it in his web. He’s a software IT expert programmer and technician and tells how annoying and difficult was to remove the program from his computer while leaving it stable.

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Posted by Boriel as Music at 12.16 am

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