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Sony has done it again, infecting their customers’ computers with a dangerous rootkit:

While everybody was busy with that BioShock “rootkit” false alarm — and subsequently busy playing BioShock — the folks at F-Secure were uncovering a new, legitimate rootkit problem in the software packaged with Sony’s MicroVault USM-F fingerprint reader drives. It took Sony a little while to respond, but now the company says it has launched an investigation into the software, which was developed by a third-party, and will offer a fix by mid-September. The drives models had already been discontinued, though you can still pick them up at a few stores, and the rootkit is not as serious as the Sony BMX XCP DRM, but the software is still dangerous enough to allow malware authors to hide folders, so we’re glad Sony’s going to run clean up here.

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The first time Sony pulled this nonsense, I swore off their products. I’m glad I stuck to that – and also glad I switched to a Sony-proof Apple Macintosh.

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