From Wikipedia: "On November 2, 2005 Sony released a patch to remove this rootkit, while continuing to maintain that it is not malicious and does not pose a security risk. To activate this patch, you are required to go to their Web site with Microsoft Internet Explorer; users of other browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, get a message to the effect that their browser is incompatible, because of the use of ActiveX controls which Mozilla omits. [3] It now turns out this software might be doing more than merely removing the harmful rootkit. The update is more than 3.5 megabytes in size, and it appears to contain new versions of almost all the files included in the initial installation of the entire DRM system, as well as creating some new files. In short, they’re not just taking away the rootkit-like function - they’re almost certainly adding things to the system as well. And once again, they’re not disclosing what they’re doing."
Thanks for the update, but I read this too (on a different website) which is why I haven't bothered yet. I'll wait until someone sues Sony into producing a REAL removal tool (or someone makes one) before I bother doing anything more to my computer.
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"On November 2, 2005 Sony released a patch to remove this rootkit, while continuing to maintain that it is not malicious and does not pose a security risk. To activate this patch, you are required to go to their Web site with Microsoft Internet Explorer; users of other browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, get a message to the effect that their browser is incompatible, because of the use of ActiveX controls which Mozilla omits. [3] It now turns out this software might be doing more than merely removing the harmful rootkit. The update is more than 3.5 megabytes in size, and it appears to contain new versions of almost all the files included in the initial installation of the entire DRM system, as well as creating some new files. In short, they’re not just taking away the rootkit-like function - they’re almost certainly adding things to the system as well. And once again, they’re not disclosing what they’re doing."
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