Remove the Sony DRM Rootkit

Contributor Icon Contributed by davak Date Icon November 3, 2005  
Tag Icon Tagged: Windows

Sony Music is evil in multiple ways. Listening to one of their copy protected CDs will install their Digital Rights Management system in your
computer. This will remove it.

    Any of the rootkit systems out there will detect Sony’s installation of a rootkit into your system. Sony uses this rootkit to attempt to hide their Digital Rights Management system.

    Rootkits are bad for a bunch of reasons. You can read more about them in tech-recipes’s introduction to rootkit scanning.

    To remove the rootkit you can install the directX-enabled DRM rootkit removal system from here:
    http://updates.xcp-aurora.com/

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