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Mark Russinovich is a software engineer and writer. He is a regular contributor to Windows IT Pro magazine (previously called Windows NT Magazine) on the subject of the Architecture of Windows 2000 and was co-author of Inside Windows 2000 (4th edition). Russinovich is the author of many tools used by Windows NT and Windows 2000 kernel-mode programmers, and of the NTFS filesystem driver for DOS. He is widely regarded as a Windows expert, and is a Microsoft MVP.

In 1996, Russinovich discovered that the difference between the workstation and server editions of Windows NT comprised solely two values in the Windows Registry¹.

Sony Rootkit Controversy

On 2005-10-31 Russinovich published his discovery of the rootkit behavior of Extended Copy Protection, an implementation of Digital Rights Management on many Sony BMG audio CDs. This led to the 2005 Sony CD copy protection controversy including, among other things, class action lawsuits against Sony for privacy violation. He also discovered that Norton Systemworks has a rootkit to recover deleted files, but it can be used by malware to do other nasty stuff.

WMF Vulnerability

In January 2006, Russinovich again came to public attention when he analyzed the WMF vulnerability in Windows and concluded that it was not a deliberate backdoor. This possibility had been raised -- albeit tentatively -- by Steve Gibson after a cursory investigation of the nature of the exploit and its mechanism.

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