Another reason not to run Windows
Posted by matt Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:45:05 GMT
in Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far This guy discovers that when he puts a CD into his windows machine, it installs DRM software that hides itself, and makes calls that could crash the machine running it. It also creates ways for other malware to hide itself, if it detects the DRM software. This is commonly called a rootkit
