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BioShock Installs a Rootkit

Posted by kdawson on from the drm-even-in-the-demo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sony (the owner of SecureROM copy protection) is still up to its old tricks. One would think that they would have learned their lesson after the music CD DRM fiasco, which cost them millions. However, they have now started infesting PC gaming with their invasive DRM. Facts have surfaced that show that the recently released PC game BioShock installs a rootkit, which embeds itself into Explorer, as part of its SecureROM copy-protection scheme. Not only that, but just installing the demo infects your system with the rootkit. This begs the question: Since when did demos need copy protection?"

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  1. Re:Shame on /. for linking to this by Endymion · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    SecureROM installs a service to let those running without admin privileges run the SecureROM stuff.

    So it's installing a privilege-escalation bug for you? That would nicely remove the benefits of running as a non-root user, but I suppose this is typical for windows junk...

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