Attached Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/21/gaffer_tape_trips_up_sony_drm/

duanemoody, I meant the legal downloads of Sony BMG. That has to be DRM protected if they are this paranoid about preserving their antiquated business model. Else how did 52 CD's in US only, and a subset of that in Canada get to infect PC's worldwide??? Yep, they have copied LAME which is LGPL. Ironic that it was LGPL, because if they had cared a rat's ass they could have legally used LAME code, with Lesser GPL they basically only needed to credit the author. Just all indicates that they - F4I - used a light weight to screw with the low level innards of millions, it now seems, of "customer" PC's. Re the media cover up, even the original article on CNN has disappeared! And at least 1 journalist claims that the anti-spyware vendors have deliberately ignored this threat. M$ have already demonstrated their perchance to selectively detect" spyware, and Symantec (who helped develop this rootkit) are equally dubious when it comes to helping fuel the virus/spyware business model. But all the others - except Karpinsky who blew the whistle early on - have "missed" it. A coincidence, or does it just mean that most of the industry just reverse engineer each others' products to find the bad guys? Latest news is that there is a workaround of sorts - see link.