Idle Sony

Have you read or heard about Sony’s recent very naughty, naughty deeds of installing a root kid-based antipiracy technology quietly  in their music CDs?

Briefly what it do is to install the root kit software in your PC without you knowing. Even if you got to know it later, it is almost impossible to remove. What the root kit do is it send information to Sony of your IP address and what you are doing with the CD. Sony use this to prevent piracy to their CDs. – Very uncool.

This thing is happening in US but those of us (not in US) have to be very careful about this. Please be aware of any Sony-BMG CDs that you bought recently.

However, worry not. Microsoft announced that it next update for Windows AntiSpyware will be able to undo this issue.

If you need further reading and information, surf to Mark Russinovich's Blog. (Thks to Paul Thurrott at windowsitpro.com)