Sony and Spyware
I just read Wade Roush's piece on Sony and the rootkit affair ("Inside the Spyware Scandal," May/June 2006), and I was curious about his decision not to discuss the spyware made by SunnComm, whose MediaMax DRM was also a cause of legal action against Sony BMG. SunnComm made spyware DRM software that phoned Sony and let them know what you'd been listening to, and when you ran their uninstaller, it left your PC vulnerable, so you could be hijacked just by looking at a malicious Web page. Even worse, SunnComm installed its malware even if you declined the user agreement and never played or copied the disc.

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