11-09-2005, 11:09 PM
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/s...tal-rights.html
There are just too many links and images to post everything here so I will give you the short version.
On some of sony music cds they are including DRM that includes rootkits. Basically it puts the stuff into hidden folder, hidden registry lines and just about everywhere it can stick something so that it can't be removed without basically formatting the hard drive and starting from scratch.
If you try to remove it, it will screw your system up and basically force you to reformat. Sometimes if you find the stuff they want you to find it reinstalls itself.
Now if you think that is bad enough, guess who else uses rootkits, you guessed it, hackers and virus makers.
So while you are trying to remove what you think is a virus it could be the junk that you agreed to have on your system when you bought and played that CD you just got.
Oh and it gets even better, the Sony rootkit, opens up your computer to a bunch of flaws which others (hackers and virus makers) can take advantage of. Also the legal rootkit installation can mess up other legal software you have.
So anyone else agree with me that DRM in general is just getting worse?
I wanted to post about this on the 31st when it was put out but as you know we had some minor problems between then and now. :D
There are just too many links and images to post everything here so I will give you the short version.
On some of sony music cds they are including DRM that includes rootkits. Basically it puts the stuff into hidden folder, hidden registry lines and just about everywhere it can stick something so that it can't be removed without basically formatting the hard drive and starting from scratch.
If you try to remove it, it will screw your system up and basically force you to reformat. Sometimes if you find the stuff they want you to find it reinstalls itself.
Now if you think that is bad enough, guess who else uses rootkits, you guessed it, hackers and virus makers.
So while you are trying to remove what you think is a virus it could be the junk that you agreed to have on your system when you bought and played that CD you just got.
Oh and it gets even better, the Sony rootkit, opens up your computer to a bunch of flaws which others (hackers and virus makers) can take advantage of. Also the legal rootkit installation can mess up other legal software you have.
So anyone else agree with me that DRM in general is just getting worse?
I wanted to post about this on the 31st when it was put out but as you know we had some minor problems between then and now. :D