Re: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

Furthermore, XCP.Sony.Rootkit installs a device driver, specifically a

> CD-ROM filter driver, which intercepts calls to the CD-ROM drive. If > any process other than the included Music Player (player.exe) attempts > to read the audio section of the CD, the filter driver inserts > seemingly random noise into the returned data making the music > unlistenable

Could I ask a very stupid question here, and maybe this is so obvious that they defeated this?

I assume that these CD's play in regular non-computer players, like the one in your car, right?

Couldn't you just turn off all of the auto-run and all that stuff on your PC and play the thing just like a regular audio CD? Or is that something that they have prevented?

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Denise Reinecke
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