{"id":128,"date":"2005-12-11T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T20:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/70.86.87.84\/?p=128"},"modified":"2005-12-11T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T20:45:10","slug":"december-2005-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/december-2005-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2005 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What&#8217;s New at PC Pitstop, December 2005<\/h3>\n<div style=\"font-size: 80%; font-weight: bold\"> Your Source for Free Online PC Tests &amp; Diagnostics<\/div>\n<h3>IN THIS ISSUE<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#A1\">Rob Cheng&#8217;s Take on Sony&#8217;s Spyware<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#A2\">Nearly One-Third of Portables are Wide Screen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#A3\">PC Pitstop Detects Sony Spyware<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#A4\">Sony Rootkit: Number 14 on the Top 25 Spyware<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"A1\">Rob Cheng&#8217;s Take on Sony&#8217;s Spyware<\/h3>\n<p>Rob&#8217;s latest article takes a hard look at the ramifications of the music industry using spyware to protect their artist&#8217;s content.  He then outlines the steps that PC Pitstop and the antispyware industry need to take to stem the tide of unwelcome and invasive software. See our article on Sony&#8217;s actions for more information about their recently-discovered rootkit.<br \/>\n<a href=\"?p=36\">Sony and Spyware<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"?p=63\">The Sony XCP Rootkit<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"A2\">Nearly One-Third of Portables are Wide Screen<\/h3>\n<p>Are portable PCs following HDTV into the wide screen format? Our latest research found that wide screens are used on nearly one- third of all portables, but desktops are not following this trend. Portables have led the way in DVD readers and wide screen displays.<br \/>\n<a href=\"?p=213\">Wide Screen Display Trends<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"A3\">PC Pitstop Detects Sony Spyware<\/h3>\n<p>Many industry observers, including PC Pitstop, label Sony&#8217;s digital rights management (DRM) as spyware, since it has the potential to send information about your music habits to Sony over the Internet. Check your PC for these new threats to your PC at PC Pitstop, using either our quick spyware scan, our deep spyware scan, or our full tests. 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