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Nick
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 Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:48 am Post subject: Rootkit On German Mr. & Mrs. Smith DVD |
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Fox News
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| According to anti-virus vendor F-Secure, based in Helsinki, Finland, the German DVD release of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" — a recent movie starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie — contains a DRM (digital rights management) protection scheme that uses rootkit-like cloaking technology. |
F-Secure's blog
Original German website post about this at Heise Online
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ld
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| They don't claim it contains a rootkit. They just say it has rootkit like functionality. It hides its processes but does not hide files or registry entries. It is also userland and not interfering with the kernel. |
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