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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Well, it follows the basic outline of a rootkit since it replaces drivers or changes the way your system interoprates with a said component, and attempts to hide itself in the process, so it is definitely a rootkit.
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First of all, it was pointed out a gazillion times that it doesn´t hide itself. I just doesn´t! And it isn´t a rootkit. A rootkit is, strictly speaking, something that *intentionally* helps to hide something or *intentionally* helps to intrude a system. Any other piece of software that does that unintentionally can only be called a shoddy piece of work, there are quite a few examples of software/drivers doing that.
Sony´s DRM software also wasn´t a rootkit. It "merely" used stealth or rootkit-
like techniques which unfortunately could be used by malware to hide themselves. SF doesn´t use the any of the stealth methods the Sony protection uses.