Users should beware of Sony Music. Listening to one of their copy-protected CDs will install their Digital Rights Management system on your computer. The following tutorial explains how to remove it.
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- 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 several 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/
