"To protect Windows users, Microsoft plans to update Windows AntiSpyware and the Malicious Software Removal Tool as well as the online scanner on Windows Live Safety Center to detect and remove the Sony BMG software, the software maker said in its blog."
silicon.com - http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39154182,00.htm
It's not often I find myself congratulating Microsoft in public, so this may actually be a first. MS have identified that the software Sony use to stop people copying audio CDs may also allow malicious code to run undetected on PCs. No doubt Sony will retaliate, but honestly don't they realise how pointless this code is (not to mention potentially disasterous for your PC). And since anyone who really wants to rip the CD can just plug the output of their CD player into their soundcard Sony aren't stopping copyright infringement (lets call it what it is, in law it's not theft or piracy)
they are just inconveniencing you and I and the punters that actually buy their CDs.
So there you have it - you may actually be more likely to catch a computer virus by playing a legitimately purchased CD than by downloading the tracks from a P2P network. Well done Sony. And well done Microsoft for targeting the pernicious code responsible.
