It may sound like rag on Sony week, but truthfully this has been brewing for awhile. First, it came out that copy-protected Sony music CDs (such as Van Zant's Get Right with the Man) install an invisible process on your Windows PC, and that Sony's code can be used to cloak cheater programs for online games such as World of Warcraft. Now we're hearing that an invisible virus has been reported, and lawyers are cranking up the class action lawsuits. Basically, it's a security risk and a cheater's paradise. For your safety, you might want to uninstall the DRM rootkit, as it's called (it's not easy; details at www.sysinternals.com/Blog). And online game makers will likely need to implement server-side checks for cheaters, a more expensive proposition than client-side ones - adding more cost for everyone...
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