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EEK!

Simple solution.

If ANYTHING on a music CD wants you to enter your admin username and password, do not do it! Problem solved.

Praxis wrote:Simple solution.

If ANYTHING on a music CD wants you to enter your admin username and password, do not do it! Problem solved.

Oh just like how Windows users should not open unfamiliar email attachments?

Uraniun235 wrote:

Praxis wrote:Simple solution.

If ANYTHING on a music CD wants you to enter your admin username and password, do not do it! Problem solved.

Oh just like how Windows users should not open unfamiliar email attachments?

That means you, ma!

Uraniun235 wrote:

Praxis wrote:Simple solution.

If ANYTHING on a music CD wants you to enter your admin username and password, do not do it! Problem solved.

Oh just like how Windows users should not open unfamiliar email attachments?

The difference there is that attachments can be good or bad.

Anything in a music CD that wants admin access is definitely bad.

Anyway, that isn't going to help ma and pa but intelligent users should at least get a warning.

The good news is that the OS X DRM software is trivial to remove compared to the Windows XP software. I don't know what it is with Windows, but for some reason, the OS facilitates the creation and installation of impossible-to-remove drivers. In OS X, it's a simple matter of unloading the kernel extensions and deleting them with admin privileges.

Durandal wrote:I don't know what it is with Windows, but for some reason, the OS facilitates the creation and installation of impossible-to-remove drivers.

I know what it is. Actually, there are two massive problems with Windows. Ass backwards security policies for installation and the registry.

Programs get to do anything they like by default on installation, like setting themselves in the startup group, changing system settings like your default dialup connection (hello! premium rate dialler!), and you're very lucky if they ask permission before doing so, or even tell you they're doing it, and that's even for the benign programs. Some, like MSN Messenger, can't even be disabled from the startup group using msconfig, they re-enable themselves.

Seriously, about 50% of all the non-hardware problems I see on Windows machines are the result of a hosed registry, usually with a repair process that's so obtuse and awkward that it's easier to slash and burn the whole operating system than to try and unfuck it. (or at least it is when you're talking someone who can barely right click without spraining something through the process, which, sadly is nearly everyone in the world)

(The other 50% are invariably caused by Norton Internet Security, which is more trouble than most viruses, and twice as hard to get rid of. It's even got it's own removal tool for when uninstall fails, just like a virus. Again, the registry is to blame)

Durandal wrote:The good news is that the OS X DRM software is trivial to remove compared to the Windows XP software.

Thats because the OSX DRM isnt a fucking rootkit.

I don't know what it is with Windows, but for some reason, the OS facilitates the creation and installation of impossible-to-remove drivers. In OS X, it's a simple matter of unloading the kernel extensions and deleting them with admin privileges.

The driver interface is much more stable and it has been around for a while, this means drivers can be more complex.