SecurityFocus has noted that the Sony BMG rootkit is being used to bypass World of Warcraft anti-cheat measures. The stealth backdoor functions of the rootkit are so good, that even the spyware that World of Warcraft puts on your system to check for anything that might possibly be used to reverse engineer or interact with the World of Warcraft game client can't get past them.
I'm inordinately amused by this particular side effect, because truly there are no good guys in this scenario. World of Warcraft is pushing spyware, Sony is pushing a rootkit, and cheaters are using one to attack the other.
In the end, I suspect that makes them all losers, in all senses of the word.
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