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Researcher: Sony BMG "rootkit" still widespread
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-16

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Hundreds of thousands of networks across the globe, including many military and government networks, appear to still contain PCs with the controversial copy-protection software installed by music discs sold by media giant Sony BMG, a security researcher told attendees at the ShmooCon hacking conference this weekend.

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Researcher: Sony BMG "rootkit" still widespread 2006-01-18
Anonymous
A few false assumptions there ? cannot assume spread only by piracy.

My wife has her own PC and only plays legit CDs on the machine (we do not do music downloads) ? she does not have a clue how to use BitTorrent, Kazaa etc.

When I did a routine anti-virus / Trojan check on her machine a while ...

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