Remember the Sony ‘CD’s that installs a trojan horse program (rootkit) on your PC?
Well, it turns out these bastions of copyright protection (Won’t somebody please think of the content creators?!?) may have used copyrighted code in violation of the license.
Sony is no longer selling the malware discs, and will be pulling them from store shelves.
In the meantime, virus writers found out about the trojan’s file-hiding capabilities which now infects computers on a href=”http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,69573,00.html”>a half a million networks. Sony issued a patch to remove the trojan – the patch stays on your computer, allowing any website you visit to download and run code on your computer. Sorry, pal, you don’t own your computer anymore.
Lovely. Just lovely.
They’ve even