naiku
11-03-2005, 06:18 PM
Sony's DRM Protected CD's require the listener to install a player on their pc. In doing so it will attach a rootkit onto your machine. If you don't know what a root kit is. It simplely attaches itself to your OS kernel and tells it some things. In this case says hide all files starting with $sys$.
If you use a rootkit remover like the one @ sysinternals.com it will remove these files but in doing so you will no longer have a CD rom drive and you will be forced to reinstall windows. I hear there is different ways to remove it, its worth looking into.
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/34
Since if you are infected with this rootkit you can name a file $sys$ and it will become hidden from the OS. The url I posted is how WoW Botters are hidding their programs from the "Warden" (Their version of gameguard). Interesting... gg sony. Install a rootkit on machines so any moron script kiddie can hide their files by naming them $sys$. Thats good DRM protection.
If you use a rootkit remover like the one @ sysinternals.com it will remove these files but in doing so you will no longer have a CD rom drive and you will be forced to reinstall windows. I hear there is different ways to remove it, its worth looking into.
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/34
Since if you are infected with this rootkit you can name a file $sys$ and it will become hidden from the OS. The url I posted is how WoW Botters are hidding their programs from the "Warden" (Their version of gameguard). Interesting... gg sony. Install a rootkit on machines so any moron script kiddie can hide their files by naming them $sys$. Thats good DRM protection.