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rootkits mean you must nuke your machine  Summary: At
Microsoft's IT Forum 2005 event in Barcelona this week, Windows
programme manager Mike Danseglio explained the only reliable
method of dealing with rootkits  Rootkits hit the news earlier
this month when Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals noticed odd
behaviour following installation of some digital rights
management (DRM) software that shipped with a Sony music CD.
What he found sparked a furore that saw Sony threatened with
everything from boycotts to class action lawsuits, and system
administrators totally reassigning their approach to users
playing what had previously been widely seen as harmless music
CDs on work computers.  Rootkits may have been around for many
years on Unix systems, but the Sony DRM debacle has propelled
them into the consciousness of many IT managers responsible for
Windows computers.  At Microsoft's IT Forum 2005 event in
Barcelona this week, Windows programme manager Mike