X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:10:10 -0600 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I have no idea what this Daemon tools thing is. Hooks into the file > system. Gee that's beginning to sound like a root-kit! Last I checked, it is a program to allow you to mount CD images as "real drives". Since it is supposed to make them look "real" enough to even fool certain copy protection schemes (and since Windows doesn't have built-in iso9660-over-loopback mount support like Linux does), I'm not surprised that it "hooks into the file system". Actually, if anything I would be surprised if it could do its thing *without* doing so. A "benevolent" rootkit, perhaps? -- Matthew Congratulations! You've won a free trip to the future! All you have to do to claim your prize is wait five minutes... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/