Who would’ve thought a music CD could harm the family PC?! That’s basically what digital music fans have discovered about Sony BMG CDs that’ve been sold since last March, and there is quite an uproar about it, the Washington Post reports. It does make one think twice about buying Sony CDs if the copyright-protection tech on them can make one’s computer vulnerable to hackers and viruses. The company that developed that technology for Sony has even issued a security patch! The controversy started earlier this week, when “computer security researcher Mark Russinovich published an analysis showing that some new Sony CDs install software that not only limits the copying of music on the discs, but also employs programming techniques normally associated with computer viruses to hide from users and prevent them from removing the software,” according to the Post. Here’s Post security writer Brian Krebs’s blog yesterday about how the Sony software affects PCs. All his readers’ feedback at the bottom, much of it saying they would be boycotting Sony products of all sorts, is longer than the blog post itself.
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