Re: That nice Sony company

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:07:42 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:13:14 +0100, martin griffith
><martingriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>taken from rec.audio.pro.
>>
>>Nice bit of digital sleuthing
>>
>>http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
>>
>>
>>martin
>
>
>Makes you think twice or so about buying a Vaio laptop. What
>terrifying stealth crap might they load on them?
>
>John

I have a Sony Vaio. It came with ME and Sony "Utilities", both of
which I immediately killed, and I replaced the OS with Win2K.

However it WAS hell-on-wheels getting all the features working again,
but I succeeded... don't know if I'll ever try that again ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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