Sony DRM Installs a Rootkit?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 31, 2005 @11:04AM from the slice-of-privacy-pie dept.

An anonymous read writes "SysInternals.com guru Mark Russinovich has a detailed investigation of a rootkit from Sony Music. It's installed with a DRM-encumbered music CD, Van Zant's "Get Right with the Man". (Mmmm, delicious irony!) The rootkit introduces several security holes into the system that could be exploited by others, such as hiding any executable file that starts with '$sys$'. Russinovich also identifies several programming bugs in the method it uses to hook system calls, and chronicles the painful steps he had to take to 'exorcise the daemon' from his system." This house is clear.

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*phew* by Alan · 2005-10-31 11:39 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm glad I get my music off of p2p networks and don't have to worry about trojans and rootkits and that evil hacker stuff!
Re:My question: by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-31 11:59 · Score: 5, Funny

> It's beyond absurd that a company of Sony's size would allow a piece of software to appear on any of its products without Sony having tested the hell out of it first.
You never played Star Wars Galaxies, did you?