Sony and rootkits

Tuesday 1 November 2005

I've long adored Sysinternals' Windows tools. They are hands-down the most technically advanced Windows system tools around, and they are free. What I didn't know was that Sysinternals' Mark Russinovich has a blog. His latest post, Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far, is a fascinating piece of detective work through some pretty deep Windows internals, reverse-engineering an irresponsible and intrusive bit of Sony digital rights management code.

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Pete Lyons 10:37 PM on 1 Nov 2005

Wow. Very humbling stuff.

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Christian 9:35 AM on 2 Nov 2005

You are right on about Sysinternals - I don't know what I did before I found ProcessExplorer/TCPView/PSExec/etc. This was also my first encounter with Mark's blog, and it has definitely been added to my blog roll. Sony had their crappy DRM/Rootkit installed on the wrong guy's PC...

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andrew 10:10 PM on 2 Nov 2005

Blogs get results!

http://www.betanews.com/article/Sony_to_Help_Remove_its_DRM_Rootkit/1130965475

(manditory keyword: pr0n)

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