[corlorde]

Remember when Sony infected millions of PC's with a malicious rootkit? I'm not crazy about giving any third party low level access to my PC.

[redgolum]

The issue with the Sony rootkit, and maybe with Vista, is that under current law you don't "own" the software or music. You own (or lease) a license which can be revoked under certain conditions.

[dinasour]

> Remember when Sony infected millions of PC's with a malicious rootkit?

It is also of some note that the company that wrote the software that discovered the rootkit, is now wholly owned by Microsoft.

Systems Internals had some really good "toys for geeks".

Now known as:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

I predict they will disappear completely.