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Sony “DRM” Rootkit Horror Story

Posted on November 2, 2005 by Chris Samuel

This is evil folks – read it and weep..

Sony music CD player software installs software that is uses rootkit & spyware like functionality and can kill your computer – if you are using Windows..

If you want another scare – look at this that claims over 80% of corporate (read MS Windows) PC’s are infected with spyware.

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