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On October 31, Windows spyware expert Mark Russinovich was testing out the latest version of his RootkitRevealer program when he noticed something odd: His software found 22 suspicious files, all of which were otherwise completely invisible to Windows.

Confused as to how his own system could have been ?infected,? Russinovich did some sleuthing and eventually traced the malicious files to his copy of Van Zant?s Get Right With The Man album.

As it turns out, Sony BMG ? the publisher behind all of this ? began ?protecting? 52 titles with a technology called XCP from the company First4Internet. Over 2 million CDs were shipped with a program that would stealthily infect Windows computers into which the owner inserted the disc.

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