X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <31b7d2790702120925s1b63e883u9e9bcd02ae006bc8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:25:35 -0600 From: "DePriest, Jason R." To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: 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 On 2/12/07, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > 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... > > DaemonTools installs a driver that creates a fake SCSI subsystem where your ISOs are mounted. It 'hooks in' just like any other driver. I have no idea what magic it does to do its job though. I have it installed on a few systems that also run cygwin and I have not had the problems being described here. I am not used the latest / greatest DaemonTools however since I am under the impression that it has become adware if you don't buy it. -Jason -- 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/