Sony CD Installs Rootkit
Quite a firestorm is brewing about the discovery that certain Sony music CD’s install hidden rootkit copy protection. The install this malware on the computers of anyone who inserts the CD with autorun enabled.
- We have warned about rootkits in the past, and are not surprised at this development. But we are happy to see this matter is getting considerable media attention. We hope Sony also gets considerable legal attention in the form of lawsuits.
The following links will take you to some sites with more info on this issue.
The following site has considerable technical information about how the rootkit was discovered and removed.
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/
Here is Sony’s response: They evidently offer a patch to enable uses to see if their rootkit based malware is installed (but they offer no way to uninstall it).
