"Having regard to the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006, itwas determined that PC Ian Dibell was acting in accordance with his duty as a police officer to preserve life and was killed whilst on duty, " a police authority spokesman said.
Mark Russinovich of SysInternals did a detailed analysis of a "rootkit" (their word, not ours) he found on hisPC, and discovered that, not only wasit surreptitiously installed when he played a protected CD, but it also hogged system resources and integrated itself into Windows so deeply that uninstalling it disabled his CD drive.