"BTW, there is no way to remove Sony BMG/F4I's rootkit manually. Even their own uninstall routine, if you manage to get hold of it (and accept their confidentiality requirement), runs the risk of permanently trashing your Windows OS."
You can easily remove it manually, just delete aries.sys and anything in the folder $sys$....
You can't do it from Windows because Windows will don't allow you to do it, so boot with DOS or Linux and delete the files.
Next time that Windows will start will complain for missing files, so run regedit, search for the deleted files and delete all the keys that makes refernce to those files.
Sony uninstall doesn't work because it doesn't remove the DRM, only install it in another way and who knows what else does.

Message edited on: 11/12/2005 13:45

Stupidity also evolves!