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How To Remove The Sony DRM Rootkit

Posted by on Nov 23, 2005 | One Comment

Grinler of BleepingComputer.com writes:

Table of Contents

  1. How this rootkit affects your computer

  2. CDs that contain this rootkit
  3. How to tell if your CD has the Sony – XPC DRM Rootkit
  4. How to tell if your computer is infected with the Sony / XPC DRM Rootkit
  5. Rootkit removal and detection
  6. Technical Details

How this rootkit affects your computer

Sony has been using XCP – Aurora as their Digital Rights Management (DRM) security system on some of their cds. A component of this DRM software is a rootkit which will hide files, registry keys, and processes that are named in a particular way. This rootkit was discovered by Mark Russinovish of Sysinternals.

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  • http://www.jamescoulter.co.uk James

    Good article.

    But there’s loads of easier ways to remove rootkits, for example sophos anti rootkit removes all known rootkits (incl the sony one) and even unknown rootkits, it’s free too.