Mark Russinovich found some strange, malicious software on his system and did some digging to analyze and find the source. Turns out it's Sony's DRM software, IMO illegally installed on his system. So I find it really absurd that under the DMCA, I bet they might consider coming after him for "illegally" reverse engineering their software and posting the details.
The world is truly upside down.
For those of you that don't wade through the whole article the basics are that Sony is, without the user's permission, installing software that hooks into the very lowest levels of the operating system (where you must be a really good programmer to keep from breaking things and as a rule, most professional developers are not really good programmers.), dilberately evades detection, and gives you no way to uninstall it.
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