http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/19/busin ... dc&ei=5070
Pretty interesting. The skinny is that SonyBMG installed an anti-pricary rootkit on peoples computers if they placed a CD into their Computer disk drive.
Of course this was quickly found and blogged about. Sony then made a ''removal' tool but that even had security issues. So what does Sony do?
Quote:
Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG's Global Digital Business, went on National Public Radio to say that "most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
Wow, so umm becuase Ive never heard of the melissa virus then I should not worry about installing my anti-virus software then? What jerks.
In the end they did a recall of all CDs and released 'clean' versions without the spyware.
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