Sony has been hit with it’s first lawsuit (class action even!) regarding it’s DRM rootkit technology….

Mark Russonovich’s blog on how he found it on his system….

Short list of affected CD’s…

Washington Post article…

Slashdot info on the lawsuit…

**Update** – Link to Sony’s “Service Pack” to disable the DRM rootkit (make a backup of your system BEFORE running this. I have read reports that trying to remove thr DRM kit can cause problems. I have not confirmed myself)

The Nun and I buy a LOT of music CD’s which go directly into our Media Center PC. When I first caught wind of of this, I ran RootKitRevealer on my Media Center and thankfully didn’t have anything unusual listed. But that didn’t make me feel any better about it. Especially since I don’t know what it would look like even if I was affected by this.

So today I am going to head out and find one of the CD’s, build a sandbox system, “infect” it with music, and then run the test again.

I will blog about this with screen shots later this evening.

 

Cheers!