Shame Sony discs don't make good Frisbee(tm) substitutes

Then there'd be one use for them. I have spent the last few days helping friends remove root kits from their machines. If you don't havea clue as to what I'm talking about you are blind, deaf, and can't Google something as simple as "Sony rootkit." Contrary to what the Sony goons say about this malicious (and futile) attempt at copy protection, I have verified these little tidbits with my own systems:1. It steals clock cycles from your CPU, slowing your system down.2. It "phones home" if you have a connection to the internet, supplying Sony with info on what music you are playing.3. It's "stealth technology" can easily be used to hide anything else, a virtual gold mine for the script kiddie hacker. Not that they need much help.4. It is difficult to remove, and any mistake in the attempt to do so can result in your cd-rom becoming unusable and/or your system crashing. Some friends have already had to completely re-install Windows from trying to do this themselves. In the case of two machines, we pulled out their hard disks, plugged them into one of my machines, copied important data, and then completely reformatted their drives.In every case I have had personal experience with, the infection apparently came from the new Van Zant cd. I applaud the Van Zant brothers for immediately posting about this on their site,http://www.thevanzants.com/ along with links to help you remove the software.More on this as the dust clears. The truth is in there.