Re: Download freeware RKR scanning software (detect Sony rootkit & others)

From: Trax (Pennywise_at_DerryMaine.Gov)
Date: 11/20/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:36:16 -0800

 pamelafiischer@yahoo.com wrote:

|>pamelafiischer@yahoo.com wrote:
|>> Where can mere mortals download necessary WinXP RKR scanning software?
|>
|>I should have noted that even though I've never installed Sony CD
|>software (to my knowledge), when I created & then renamed a text file
|>to "$sys$myfile.txt", it immediately disappeared from view.
|>
|>That in and of itself makes me suspect incipient malware other than
|>Sony audio CDs, which makes me now want to run the freeware rootkit
|>scanner everyone is alluding to even more urgently.

If your comfortable editing your system:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Blog/ scroll down to "Sony, Rootkits and
Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far" towards the end Mark explains
how he deleted it. And so can you with the info..

All files are located in the
Windows\system32\$sys$filesystem
you can't see the directory but you can enter it by accessing it
directly in a CMD window ie:
Windows\system32> CD $sys$filesystem 

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