[LINK] Microsoft Will Remove Sony Rootkit

[Howard Lowndes]

Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Con Zymaris wrote:
> 
>>>> Microsoft Will Remove Sony Rootkit
>>>>  After dithering for a few days over whether to categorize Sony's new
>>>> audio CD copy protection system as spyware, Microsoft on Friday
>>>> announced that the next update to its antispyware package would indeed
>>>> remove the Sony code from users' PCs. Microsoft will include the
>>>> removal code in an update to the recently renamed Windows Defender,
>>>> formerly Windows AntiSpyware. Sony's system is based on a rootkit,
>>>> typically used by malicious hackers to keep their malware hidden. Sony
>>>> was using it to prevent users from pirating its CDs.
>>
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>>
>> Read these too:
>>
>>  http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20051113164717817
>>
>> and
>>
>>  http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20051115001431715
> 
> 
> Wait a minute.
> 
> If I distribute software that installs a rootkit, you can be sure that
> I would be up for prosecution under anti-hacking laws.
> 
> What's going on here? One law for the plebs and another for corporations?

Don't you know anything about business...
Subscribe to campaign funds == Get out of Jail Free card

> 
> cheers
> rickw
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