Microsoft to remove rootkit component of XCP copy-protection software used by Sony
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In a recent TechNet blog, Jason Garms of Microsoft's Anti-Malware Technology Team outlined how the company will be tackling Sony's DRM and other rootkit malware. Garms, whose title is Architect & Group PM, said that Microsoft would be adding a detection and removal signature to the Windows AntiSpyware beta for the rootkit component of the XCP software used by Sony and others. He also said that Microsoft planned to include this signature in the December monthly update to the Malicious Software Removal Tool.
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