Sony hasn't learned when you find yourself in a hole, quit digging

But the uninstaller created a new set of problems.

To get the uninstall program, users were asked to request it by filling out online forms. Once submitted, the forms themselves download and install a program designed to ready the PC for the fix. Essentially, it makes the PC open to downloading and installing code from the Internet.

According to security experts, the program fails to make the computer confirm that such code should come only from Sony or First 4 Internet.

"The consequences of the flaw are severe," Felten and Halderman wrote in a blog posting yesterday after being tipped by a Finnish researcher, Matti Nikki. "It allows any Web page you visit to download, install, and run any code it likes on your computer. Any Web page can seize control of your computer; then it can do anything it likes. That's about as serious as a security flaw can get."

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051116/news_1b16sony.html

I guess. :shrug:

the article list a few of the artists.

or to avoid the infected discs? because if the latter, it was only a few titles just released.

the bush* handbook. Do whatever will help your cause now no matter about tomorrow.

Just another reason I'm glad I've always had Macs. Never have had to deal with this shit, but I feel for those of you who do, must be hell.