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Sony Baloney
By: Steve Gibson

How just inserting a popular music CD into your computer can install a worrisome hacker rootkit into your Windows PC!
 

The entire PC industry recently erupted with the news that Sony’s DRM (digital rights management) copy protection technology is using hacker rootkit technology to deliberately modify the operation of the Windows operating system in order to hide its own DRM installation. Just Google the query “Sony Rootkit” to see what has happened.

RELATED WEBSITE LINKS
The "First 4 Internet" company web site
This is the company "First 4 Internet" that created this DRM "rootkit" technology which Sony is deploying.

The XCP Aurora web site
This is the web site for the XCP DRM "rootkit" technology.

Mark Russinovich's blog posting
This is Mark's Halloween (October 31st, 2005) posting explaining how he discovered the Sony/BMG rootkit technology living on one of his own machines when we ran his own "Rootkit Revealer" technology on this machine.

Mark Russinovich's copy of the Sony EULA license agreement

A form on the Sony/BMG site for contacting them
You might be interested in dropping Sony a note to express your opinion about their hidden copy protection technology.

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