http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2005/11/14/sony-no-more-rootkit-for-now.aspxThere have been several significant developments in the Sony DRM story since my last post. The first is that, despite Sony’s and First 4 Internet’s claims that their rootkit poses no security risk, several viruses have been identified in the wild thaten-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2005/11/14/sony-no-more-rootkit-for-now.aspx#614472Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:52:29 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:614472Michael Szalapski<p>I tried the kill of Sony's DRM as suggested on this page:</p> <p> &nbsp; 1. Open the Run dialog from the Start menu</p> <p> &nbsp; 2. Enter “cmd /k sc delete $sys$aries”</p> <p> &nbsp; 3. Reboot</p> <p>It wouldn't reboot. &nbsp;At all. &nbsp;And still won't. &nbsp;I can't even get far enough in the boot process to run Windows in safe mode. &nbsp;I get the bios screen but that's it.</p> <p>Please help.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=614472" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2005/11/14/sony-no-more-rootkit-for-now.aspx#532441Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:40:08 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:532441Infreemation » DMCA exceptions granted<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.infreemation.net/2006/11/27/dmca-exceptions-granted/">http://www.infreemation.net/2006/11/27/dmca-exceptions-granted/</a></p> <img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=532441" width="1" height="1">