Sony probably ships their hardware with their own pre-installed rootkits (can't let users pirate Sony Music, don't ya know!). I wonder how much Sony would charge to pre-delete that rootkit? Of course, they'd probably take your money and still leave the rootkit installed!

Sony is on my permanent "do not buy" list after they pulled that surreptitious rootkit stunt a couple of years ago.

-- chicopanther

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