Sony halts production of ‘rootkit’ CDs

November 12, 2005 at 2:17 pm | In Music, PC, Technology | 1 Comment

Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Friday that it will suspend production of CDs with copy-protection technology that has been exploited by virus writers to try to hide their malicious code on PCs.

They have bitten the bullet and are stopping production of CD copy protection that installs rootkits. Won’t be long before they try some other stunt to get around it but for now it is a start.

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