Sony BIG BOO BOO!!

Beware everyone.. Woah my lecturer was telling us about this the other day, and as expected the matter is getting bigger and bigger... so silly... moral of the story.. never offend the people whom u depend on to make $...

Excerpt from Sory Electronics (blog) tracks the latest in the Sony BOOBOO!
"Sony has been caught deliberately infecting its customers with dangerous, malicious software. The company refuses to properly apologize or make any reasonable amends. Millions of PCs on more than half a million networks have been infected. Here’s the story so far:

Recently an interesting development came to light when a programmer named Mark Russinovich was working on some software that he had written. This software is called RootkitRevealer and it’s meant to uncover when a hacker has placed some very sneaky malware on your computer called a rootkit. Rootkits are used by hackers to cause a computers operating system to lie to the user about what is on the system, thus hiding the hacker’s dirty work.

Mark was quite surprised when he was running a test on his software and was quite surprised to see that his test machine had a rootkit on it that he was not expecting to find. Now Mark is a rather intelligent fellow and was able to track down the source of this unexpected hack onto his computer: a Sony audio CD he had played recently on his computer.........."

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