MLUG: Re: [MLUG] Sony DRM Rootkit Controversy
Re: [MLUG] Sony DRM Rootkit Controversy
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More interesting was that with Sony's rootkit installed you can hide ANY program on the system by naming it this way. So all a virus or trojan writer has to do is name their files this way and every Windows user who has listened to a Sony CD will be unable to get rid of the bastard without special help.

Slashdot has a new one on this:

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/07/1221209

Sony Rootkit Phones Home

Interesting fact:

  the DRM can be bypassed simply by renaming your favourite ripping
  program with "$sys$" at the start of the filename and ripping the CD
  using this file, which is now undetectable even by the Sony DRM.


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Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
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