AnyDVD tackles Sony DRM Rootkit Virus
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Posted on Thursday 3rd of November, 2005 at 08:45 by Blade
Source: Slysoft
This newspost is a full press release and has not been modified by our team of editors. Since March 2005, Sony BMG is using a rootkit-based DRM system on some newer audio CDs. This DRM system is a serious hazard to each Windows based PC. Well known websites like F-Secure.com and SysInternals.com (URLs below) are confirming this exposure.
If AnyDVD is installed and active on a PC, this new so-called "Sony DRM Rootkit Virus" has no access to the operating system and the affected audio CD appears unprotected regardless!
"What the heck Sony thought to themselves," SlySoft's CEO Giancarlo Bettini was kidding, "maybe they wanna build their own bot net?".
This "anti rootkit protection" is not a new function of AnyDVD, rather it is the nature of AnyDVD to filter all undesired stuff between a CD/DVD drive and the operating system. It is just one example, how well AnyDVD's option to "Remove CD Digital Audio Protection" is working.
Links:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000691
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
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