Microsoft Zapping Sony DRM 'Rootkit'
Not even Microsoft wants any part of Sony's rootkit fiasco, adds it to anti-spyware detection.
Microsoft Corp. will start deleting the rootkit component of the controversial DRM scheme used by Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
The Microsoft move comes 24 hours after Sony announced it would stop production of music CDs that use the XCP technology and re-examine its DRM initiative to make sure it has balanced ease of use for consumers with security.
The XCP technology, created by U.K.-based First 4 Internet Ltd., manipulates the Windows kernel to make it almost virtually undetectable on Windows systems and nearly impossible to remove without possibly damaging the Windows operating system.
Microsoft Zapping Sony DRM 'Rootkit'
Microsoft Corp. will start deleting the rootkit component of the controversial DRM scheme used by Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
The Microsoft move comes 24 hours after Sony announced it would stop production of music CDs that use the XCP technology and re-examine its DRM initiative to make sure it has balanced ease of use for consumers with security.
The XCP technology, created by U.K.-based First 4 Internet Ltd., manipulates the Windows kernel to make it almost virtually undetectable on Windows systems and nearly impossible to remove without possibly damaging the Windows operating system.
Microsoft Zapping Sony DRM 'Rootkit'
posted by Mindwolf | 11/13/2005 04:32:00 AM
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