A twenty-year-old in the US has been sentenced to five years of jail time for using people's computers as bots and profiting from their spyware infection.

Redmond sounds the alarm as malware in the shape of stealth rootkits batters SP2 users

Damage limitation squads have been deployed at Sony BMG, issuing an apology for the recent rootkit disaster. Production will cease, and customers can swap XCP discs for non-spyware versions. Power To The People!

Sony-BMG could be in some legal strife over the Van Zant copy-protection / malware issue. But so might any user who attempts to remove it. We look at the legal merit to both sides of the story.

Following an enormous backlash in the media and by the music-listening public, Sony-BMG performed an embarrassing U-turn and have released a patch to remove the aggressive DRM from the latest Van Zant CD.

Spyware is just something from the movies, right? A sizable portion of people believe that it's all a Phantom Menace, according to a new survey