legacy
November 2nd, 2005, 03:30 AM
Discoverd by Mark from Sysinternals (http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html)
Confirmed by F-Secure (http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/)
Take note, virus writers can take advantage of this rootkit to hide viruses/trojans, anything they want.
If you find this rootkit from your system, we recommend you don't remove it with our products. As this DRM system is implemented as a filter driver for the CD drive, just blindly removing it might result in an inaccessible CD drive letter. Instead, we recommend you contact Sony BMG directly via this web form and ask for directions on how to remove the software from your system. We've test driven this and they will provide you with tools to do this. However, they will install additional ActiveX components to your system while they are doing this so be adviced.
Confirmed by F-Secure (http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/)
Take note, virus writers can take advantage of this rootkit to hide viruses/trojans, anything they want.
If you find this rootkit from your system, we recommend you don't remove it with our products. As this DRM system is implemented as a filter driver for the CD drive, just blindly removing it might result in an inaccessible CD drive letter. Instead, we recommend you contact Sony BMG directly via this web form and ask for directions on how to remove the software from your system. We've test driven this and they will provide you with tools to do this. However, they will install additional ActiveX components to your system while they are doing this so be adviced.