Sony DRM removal tool link

[CrownRoyal]

I don't know if this has been posted, yet, but I thought I'd share it with you:

http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html

It removes the Rootkit that may have been installed on your PCs. Linux and Mac users aren't affected.

Hope that helps.

Feel free to tell Sony BMG how you feel about it.

Cheers.

[timmyo]

apparently:

"The patch offered by Sony does not remove the rootkit, it just gets rid of the $sys$ cloaking. A lot of the chatter about the Sony rootkit has been about other malware authors using files/processes/reg keys starting $sys$, which would then be invisible on machines with the Sony rootkit installed."

well that's what my IT-literate friend sent me yesterday . . .

[ResonantOrder]

The 'update' doesn't work.

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/03/so ... eroot.html

-The plot sickens. Paul and others point out, "The patch offered by Sony does not remove the rootkit, it just gets rid of the $sys$ cloaking. A lot of the chatter about the Sony rootkit has been about other malware authors using files/processes/reg keys starting $sys$, which would then be invisible on machines with the Sony rootkit installed."-