After you install this security update, some programs may not run. (For example, some video games may not run.) To work around this issue, you can temporarily turn on the service for the secdrv.sys driver by running certain commands, or by editing the registry.
Note When you no longer require the service to be running, we recommend that you turn off the service again.
Warning This workaround may make a computer or a network more vulnerable to attack by malicious users or by malicious software such as viruses. We do not recommend this workaround but are providing this information so that you can implement this workaround at your own discretion. Use this workaround at your own risk.
Murder She Wrote wrote on Sep 26, 2015, 08:34:
Fortunately many of the people who download such things also think they're an internet expert because they can use google and half of them don't even run AV software so they have no idea they're infected. Fun times.
Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 15:44:But it doesn't work with old games like Battlefield 1942, etc. according to this article. I tried BF2, BF:V, Crysis 1, C&C3, etc.Orogogus wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 13:51:
I believe you can use the retail version's CD key to activate a copy on Origin (here: https://activate.ea.com/gameactivation.do).
Correct. It even comes with both DLCs.
Creston wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 22:55:Sepharo wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 16:16:Kajetan wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 09:14:Creston wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 08:48:No, they are not. Lets take one Safedisc game, Freelancer.
You consider gamecopyworld.com trustworthy? Their .exes are loaded with viruses...
Upload any of these cracks to Virustotal.com. Analyze. Virus free!
I use this site for nearly 15 years. No viruses, some false alarms. Never had any problems. Viruses, mal- and adware is mostly found in game downloads from sites, where you are tricked to use some crappy downloader, who shits tons of adware in your system.
Same here. Used to cracked exe everything and they almost always came from gamecopyworld. Never contained a virus.
I tried finding cracked .exes for some old LoTR games, and every single one that I downloaded from every single link through gamecopyworld had a virus in it. It's possible I was just unlucky, but I just began rebuying stuff I'd want to play again digitally after that.
Sepharo wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 16:16:Kajetan wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 09:14:Creston wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 08:48:No, they are not. Lets take one Safedisc game, Freelancer.
You consider gamecopyworld.com trustworthy? Their .exes are loaded with viruses...
Upload any of these cracks to Virustotal.com. Analyze. Virus free!
I use this site for nearly 15 years. No viruses, some false alarms. Never had any problems. Viruses, mal- and adware is mostly found in game downloads from sites, where you are tricked to use some crappy downloader, who shits tons of adware in your system.
Same here. Used to cracked exe everything and they almost always came from gamecopyworld. Never contained a virus.
CJ_Parker wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 15:11:The way this works is that someone reports a vulnerability to them, and ideally they get a bit of time to sort it out. The vulnerability would have been there all along, only no one had found it until now.Kevin Lowe wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 10:57:Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 23:32:As opposed to leaving an exploit vector open. Security is a good thing.Kevin Lowe wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 21:06:Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 15:39:Microsoft didn't make SafeDisc. Can we get some people who actually know what they're talking about around here?
"Hey, you know how we screwed you over with this crappy DRM that rarely worked right? Well, we're turning it off now, so that you will again be screwed over.
By the way, we have a new operating system available. Don't you want it?"
It might help if you learn to read. I never said that they made it. They did release games with it when they still published PC games. Now they turn off the driver hook that it works with, basically breaking those games unless you feel confident you can somehow find a cracked .exe without 6 viruses in it.
secdrv.sys has not been touched since 2009. So six years later MS fixes an "exploit vector". Wow. Impressive!
I mean we were all drowning in SafeDisc exploits. They made the headlines daily!
This certainly had to be addressed IMMEDIATELY after all these years. No time at all to release DRM-free EXEs for their own games or inform other publishers of their plans.
Kajetan wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 09:14:Creston wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 08:48:No, they are not. Lets take one Safedisc game, Freelancer.
You consider gamecopyworld.com trustworthy? Their .exes are loaded with viruses...
Upload any of these cracks to Virustotal.com. Analyze. Virus free!
I use this site for nearly 15 years. No viruses, some false alarms. Never had any problems. Viruses, mal- and adware is mostly found in game downloads from sites, where you are tricked to use some crappy downloader, who shits tons of adware in your system.
Kevin Lowe wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 10:57:Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 23:32:As opposed to leaving an exploit vector open. Security is a good thing.Kevin Lowe wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 21:06:Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 15:39:Microsoft didn't make SafeDisc. Can we get some people who actually know what they're talking about around here?
"Hey, you know how we screwed you over with this crappy DRM that rarely worked right? Well, we're turning it off now, so that you will again be screwed over.
By the way, we have a new operating system available. Don't you want it?"
It might help if you learn to read. I never said that they made it. They did release games with it when they still published PC games. Now they turn off the driver hook that it works with, basically breaking those games unless you feel confident you can somehow find a cracked .exe without 6 viruses in it.
Kevin Lowe wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 10:57:Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 23:32:As opposed to leaving an exploit vector open. Security is a good thing.Kevin Lowe wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 21:06:Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 15:39:Microsoft didn't make SafeDisc. Can we get some people who actually know what they're talking about around here?
"Hey, you know how we screwed you over with this crappy DRM that rarely worked right? Well, we're turning it off now, so that you will again be screwed over.
By the way, we have a new operating system available. Don't you want it?"
It might help if you learn to read. I never said that they made it. They did release games with it when they still published PC games. Now they turn off the driver hook that it works with, basically breaking those games unless you feel confident you can somehow find a cracked .exe without 6 viruses in it.
Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 23:32:As opposed to leaving an exploit vector open. Security is a good thing.Kevin Lowe wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 21:06:Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 15:39:Microsoft didn't make SafeDisc. Can we get some people who actually know what they're talking about around here?
"Hey, you know how we screwed you over with this crappy DRM that rarely worked right? Well, we're turning it off now, so that you will again be screwed over.
By the way, we have a new operating system available. Don't you want it?"
It might help if you learn to read. I never said that they made it. They did release games with it when they still published PC games. Now they turn off the driver hook that it works with, basically breaking those games unless you feel confident you can somehow find a cracked .exe without 6 viruses in it.
Creston wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 08:48:No, they are not. Lets take one Safedisc game, Freelancer.
You consider gamecopyworld.com trustworthy? Their .exes are loaded with viruses...
Creston wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 08:48:Kajetan wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 07:09:Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 23:32:http://gamecopyworld.com, http://gf.wiretarget.com/
Now they turn off the driver hook that it works with, basically breaking those games unless you feel confident you can somehow find a cracked .exe without 6 viruses in it.
All you need and trustworthy since ever.
You consider gamecopyworld.com trustworthy? Their .exes are loaded with viruses...
Kajetan wrote on Sep 24, 2015, 07:09:Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 23:32:http://gamecopyworld.com, http://gf.wiretarget.com/
Now they turn off the driver hook that it works with, basically breaking those games unless you feel confident you can somehow find a cracked .exe without 6 viruses in it.
All you need and trustworthy since ever.
Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 23:32:http://gamecopyworld.com, http://gf.wiretarget.com/
Now they turn off the driver hook that it works with, basically breaking those games unless you feel confident you can somehow find a cracked .exe without 6 viruses in it.
Kevin Lowe wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 21:06:Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 15:39:Microsoft didn't make SafeDisc. Can we get some people who actually know what they're talking about around here?
"Hey, you know how we screwed you over with this crappy DRM that rarely worked right? Well, we're turning it off now, so that you will again be screwed over.
By the way, we have a new operating system available. Don't you want it?"
Rigs wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 10:28:It's being issued as a security update. Most likely there is a vulnerability in the safedisc driver and Microsoft is proactively disabling it due to that, which in turn implies that the manufacturer (Rovi/Macrovision) is not going to fix it. Microsoft has disabled other faulty drivers in the past, though this is typically accomplished by pushing a driver update as a security fix. In fact they did this once before, in 2007, distributing an updated Safedisc driver version to plug a vulnerability.
I literally scratched my head when reading the headline. I don't know why they're going through all this trouble, all you have to do is go into 'Services' under Admin Tools and disable that particular service. If you want it back, re-enable it. Done. But why the hell are they even bothering now? It makes no sense whatsoever. When has MS ever gone back and disabled something in a prior OS? Is there a precedent for this?
Creston wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 15:39:Microsoft didn't make SafeDisc. Can we get some people who actually know what they're talking about around here?
"Hey, you know how we screwed you over with this crappy DRM that rarely worked right? Well, we're turning it off now, so that you will again be screwed over.
By the way, we have a new operating system available. Don't you want it?"