Play a Sony CD, get a rootkit installed

[SuperSparks]

This isn't funny at all, in fact I'm not at all sure that it wouldn't be a crime under UK law:

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html

[liam858]

I saw an article yesterday online, but not in detail...that's some nice detective work from "Mark Russinovich", i think i'll be downloading RKR now and checking my system.

Cheers for the indepth article....Sony have gone too far with this one.:(

Liam

[SuperSparks]

What others are saying about it:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/01/sony_rootkit_drm/

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27349

[poppy4]

Sony unit to distribute software patch

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700AP_Sony_Copy_Protection.html

This is a step in the right direction, I guess, but I'm still going to boycott Sony products. What they have done is reprehensible, and probably illegal.

[SuperSparks]

There's more here, with a lawyer saying that it's definitley illegal under the Computer Misuse Act. I hope someone prosecutes them, they might take some notice of that:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4400148.stm

[Rainbow32]

Here's a link to the Sony site for supposedly removing this rootkit thingy. I think the more people to hit this site the bigger the message will be to Sony and to others to stop doing this.
http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/index.html
Click on software updates.