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Bioshock Rootkit Rumor Shot DownBy Peter CooganThe release of the eagerly anticipated Bioshock game lead to gamers getting another kind of shock. Bioshock is a hybrid first-person shooter/RPG from Irrational Games. A rumor had circulated that the Bioshock game comes loaded with a rootkit. After investigation Symantec can confirm that this is not true. The rumor seems to have started after Microsoft’s RootkitRevealer found a “SecuROM” registry setting that it found suspicious after the Bioshock game had been installed. SecuROM just so happens to be owned by Sony who after all had started the whole rootkit outrage with their music CDs. The secuROM installation creates a folder and a registry key with a null character which prevents users from accessing/deleting the key from the registry. This is to assist with disc authentication and piracy. It is however not a rootkit.
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