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This is kind of an old story, but a friend told me about it the other day and this is what I found. It appears that in sony's attempt to guard against piracy, they hired a third party company, First4Internet, to write a program that would limit the number of times that their cds could be copied and communicate information back to sony. Here is a list of the infected cds. It appears that virus writers decided to exploit this with a trojan virus. Good job sony. Three cheers for DRM!

When I first read that (and the whole blog entries written by the guy who discovered the rootkit - took me 2 hours), I went out and bought all Sony CDs, DVDs, all the models of playstations, couple of desktop and laptop vaios. I looooooove Sony :*

So you want to say that in some sony CDs are viruses and other think that can injure my PC?

thebeast wrote:So you want to say that in some sony CDs are viruses and other think that can injure my PC?

Yes and no. The Sony CD's won't directly harm your system, but they make it VERY easy for other people to get in and trash it.