Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Sony DRM 'rootkit' Problem
Recently, Sony BMG came up with a Digital Right Management software embedded into CD to help protect music copyrights.
The CD is playable through normal electrical appliances like CD-Player, DVD players but when used on a computer. It 'secretly' installed a hidden program into the computer and redirect some windows processes to itself for handling. Thus the term 'rootkit'.
You would send windows crashing if u try uninstalling it using rootkit removal or even Sony DRM removal tools. Some users experience no sound while playing other CDs.
Some virus writer has already ride the wave by installing virus into Sony DRM stealth folder.
Luckily for us all affected CDs had been recall from the market.
The CD is playable through normal electrical appliances like CD-Player, DVD players but when used on a computer. It 'secretly' installed a hidden program into the computer and redirect some windows processes to itself for handling. Thus the term 'rootkit'.
You would send windows crashing if u try uninstalling it using rootkit removal or even Sony DRM removal tools. Some users experience no sound while playing other CDs.
Some virus writer has already ride the wave by installing virus into Sony DRM stealth folder.
Luckily for us all affected CDs had been recall from the market.
# posted by David Low @ 10:36 AM 
