Sony music CD installs spyware

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Another problem was raised by ZOverlord at BroadbandReports, who, based on Mark Russinovich's blog (which Oddysey linked to), pointed out that: any files beginning with $sys$ would be hidden by Sony's rootkit. Thus, a malware maker could theoretically re-name his own malware accordingly, and once it had gotten into one's system, it would be effectively hidden as though the malware author had rootkitted the system. Not good. Perhaps I should have clarified that by saying malware maker #2, with malware maker #1 being Sony + First4Internet.