Sony’s Spyware
I thought this should be posted again, it came from this boing boing post:
Dozens of BB readers wrote in to say that Sony is no longer putting malicious rootkit software on its CDs. Of course, the stores are still filled with infectious CDs, and untold millions of computer users have had their PCs compromised by the rootkit.
Here’s a link to the original Yahoo! News Article.
And here is a link to the Symantec Antivirus page about the spyware. Under the removal section there is a tool you can download to check and clean your computer of this little malicious application.
