[Dev] Sony's Windows rootkit

[Mike Taylor]

yea - but it is still present and linked into the hardware device chain 
in such a rude manner that if you try and remove the files you 
basically kill your system because all of you CD drives just disappear.

yuck!

On Nov 4, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Brian Kirsch wrote:

> Very interesting article,
> Looks like Sony is caving in to pressure and uncloaking its DRM code.
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20051104/tc_pcworld/123432
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> David Surovell wrote:
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>> It appears as though Sony is getting into Windows hacking. For the 
>> gory details, and an excellent, deep analysis of Windows security 
>> hacking, check out the following:
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>> http://www.sysinternals.com/Blog/
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