Many in the blogosphere have started justifiably making noise about Sony’s incorrigible DRM software on music CDs, discovered by Mark Russinovich at the Sysinternals blog. The program is a rootkit, a kind of software for Windows that is hidden from users and cannot be uninstalled manually. Sony has released an update that uninstalls it.
thanks Biewald
Comments
@ 13:32
This update doesn’t uninstall, just “decloaks” it. http://www.livejournal.com/users/metaphorge/848689.html
@ 14:33
you’re right. I was fooled by sneaky language at the Sony website: “this update has been released to enable users to remove this component from their computers.” ‘This component’ meaning the cloaking component.