Mr. & Mrs. Rootkit
It seems that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are spreading the rootkit love with the German DVD release of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. This DVD uses a copy protection mechanism that is being described as using “rootkit-like cloaking technology.” The DVD uses Settec Alpha-DISC copy protection that manages to hide its processes, but it does not hide any files. So it isn’t as bad as Sony’s recent rootkit blunders, at least in practice.
Even though the files are easily visible and scanable by anti-virus software, that doesn’t mean malware couldn’t easily hide in the processes.
Plus, hey—that’s our computer.