Mark Russinovich over at SysInternals ran into a nasty surprise recently: a rootkit was found on his system. More disturbing, however, was its source: one of Sony's content-restricted audio CDs. Their latest DRM appears to install drivers on the system that not only interfere with system functions, but hide themselves to prevent detection and removal. The license agreement on the CD doesn't even mention this software. An entire analysis of the software, down to the very gritty technical details, can be found at the above link.
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