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BioShock Installs a Rootkit ? or just a Service ?

Submitted by MacRonin on August 25, 2007 - 8:31am
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BioShock Installs a Rootkit: "An anonymous reader writes 'Sony (the owner of SecureROM copy protection) is still up to its old tricks. One would think that they would have learned their lesson after the music CD DRM fiasco, which cost them millions. However, they have now started infesting PC gaming with their invasive DRM. Facts have surfaced that show that the recently released PC game BioShock installs a rootkit, which embeds itself into Explorer, as part of its SecureROM copy-protection scheme. Not only that, but just installing the demo infects your system with the rootkit. This begs the question: Since when did demos need copy protection?'

(Read Original Article - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online.)

Editor: Read the original article for an update. It might actually be a feature :-) But it does show that SONY seems to have lost the publics trust

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