Sony BMG's PR Disaster

Stinks E was sent as an email attachment to a mailing list of a certain British business magazine. Trojan installed itself and created a backdoor through which an attacker could take over the system. The nefarious cloaking mechanism, which Sony BMG used in order to hide the presence of its software from its customers, was now being leveraged by malware authors. On November 21, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a suit against Sony BMG accusing it of surreptitiously installing spyware on millions of music CDs.