Tim Smith wrote:
Tim,
Anyone who cries the sky is falling, and I might need to reformat and
reinstall (A parallel, non destructive clean install would also disable
it, without hosing my data) to remove a piece of drm based software
which is nothing more then a system driver with assistance to hide
itself, is not an expert. Atleast, not when it came to diagnosing the
drm software. What is the point I ask of a reformat? Do you really want
to lose all of your data, documents, anything you haven't already
backed up?
Not only does he recommend such drastic measures for it's removal, He
only studies the beginning of it. Claims that due to it's registry
modifications, it's near impossible to remove. (It's pretty simple,
actually). He goes onto mention, correctly that your cdrom drives will
break should you be successful in disabling it. He doesn't bother to
mention (expert huh?) that this is what happens if you remove the cdrom
drivers as indicated in the registry in the upper and lower filterkeys.
Several other applications which do not make an effort to hide, and
even include an uninstaller can break your cdrom access. Deleting two
registry keys (the upper/lower filterkeys) and rebooting will solve
this problem. Windows will reset them back to default drivers and
retake control of the optical drives present on your system.
If you can answer my questions Tim, I'll concede of his "expert"ness.
Regards,
Dustin Cook
http://bughunter.atspace.org
