Posted by: Olav Petri (Monday 14 November 2005, 2:24 PM)
It's not the CD, it's the operating system that installs the rootkit. Sony's got no clear conscience here both from the rootkit and from apparently violating copyright by stealing code, but lets call them as they are: the operating system should not be automatically installing rootkits.
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