F-secure has released a rootkit scanner kit (beta) to get rid of these things for non-technical people. Right now it is a free beta trial program but there are planning to add it to their Internet Secutiry suite for 2006.

They have some commentary about this episode on their blog also.

On a related note the RIAA is also trying to make devices like the XM MyFi illegal now... XMFan.com discussion