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  • Microsoft will wipe Sony's 'rootkit'

    Microsoft will update its security tools to detect and remove part of the copy protection tools installed on PCs when some music CDs are played.

  • Gartner: Sony's DRM 'spyware' is unacceptable

    Gartner has criticised Sony for using rootkit technology to hide its Digital Rights Management (DRM) tool, which the analyst group said meets both the 'formal and informal definitions of spyware', and is 'unacceptable' behaviour.

  • Kaspersky predicts Vista security holes

    Antivirus experts from Kaspersky Labs have predicted that 90 percent of current malware will run on Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista.

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