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A new Beastie Boys’ CD called “To the Five Boroughs” (Capitol Records), is raising hackles around the Web for reputedly infecting computers with a virus.

According to a recent thread at BugTraq, an executable file is automatically and silently installed on the user’s machine when the CD is loaded. The file is said to be a driver that prevents users from ripping the CD (and perhaps others), and attacks both Windows boxes and Macs. [more @ www.theregister.co.uk]