Rootkit

"Rootkit" Charges Consumers whose computers were damaged eligible for up to

unknown title 2009

* DMCA Delays Disclosure of Sony-BMG "Rootkit" Vulnerability

Boing Boing: April 9, 2006 - April 15, 2006 Archives 2006

German Retailer to Pay Damages Over Sony BMG 'Rootkit' CD

Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge 2009

Got the same thing myself - if you click on it, it explains that its something that has been set in Bios or some existing virtualization software that you might be running already -- or it could be some Rootkit that is wreaking havoc on your system.

SecureAble Tells You If Your Processor Will Support Windows 7′s XP Mode | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Are you guys aware that Phorms predecessor company (121 Media) was involved with a Rootkit?

Phorm’s All-Seeing Parasite Cookie - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Only Sony BMG have held out -- and that's the same label that gave us the infamous Sony Rootkit, a dangerous hacker-tool that Sony infected millions of PCs with in a failed bid to prevent copying of its music.

- Boing Boing 2007

There is also an improved Rootkit protection, along with a process they call "FirstScan."

Robert J. Elisberg: The Writers Workbench: Spy vs. Spy 2009

Got the same thing myself - if you click on it, it explains that its something that has been set in Bios or some existing virtualization software that you might be running already--or it could be some Rootkit that is wreaking havoc on your system.

SecureAble Tells You If Your Processor Will Support Windows 7′s XP Mode | Lifehacker Australia 2009

After the Rootkit fiasco, Sony proactively offered consumer compensation in order to avoid a public scandal.

Has Blu-ray won the HD format war? | Sync Blog 2008

Now I personally am not going to buy one of these seeing as after the Rootkit debacle I declared I would never buy a Sony thing again ever.

Why It Won’t Work « Whatever 2008