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by Steve Gibson, Nov 10, 2005 7:55pm PST

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Woohoo for Most Wanted demo! I'm pretty much a racing game junky so it's my duty to try that thing out. Someone remind me to finally buy TrackMania by the way. No idea why I havent.. really did enjoy both demos.

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By: Toraz Chryx x Show Full Post

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Bah

the Sony DRM 'rootkit' affects Macs as well as Windows boxes.

the difference?

You have to be an admin user AND give the app your username and password to install it on a Mac, whereas it just installs without asking on a Windows box.

http://www.macintouch.com/#tip.2005.11.10.sony

Nov 11, 2005 5:04am PST

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Bah the Sony DRM 'rootkit' affects Macs as well as Windows boxes. the difference? You have to be... : Toraz Chryx
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- Do you really have to be an admin user? I'd have thought it would install for a regular user if you give ... : jcupitt
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  The problem is that Microsoft has everyone running with Administrator privaleges out of the box, which is... : ThomW
  - That's at least one good thing about Vista, the default user is not an admin. I think it'll be more like ... : nomaad
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    plus autorun! wonderful stuff : jcupitt
    - Thats why smart people like us shackers disable stupid autorun! : FormerHPB
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    well you can't do shit otherwise. : *metal*
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      ^^^ Because of it's single-user heritage, Windows defaults users to admin status because a SHITLOAD of... : Toraz Chryx
      
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      It's more because nobody tests their apps work as a non-admin than anything to do with Windows. : nudel
      
      and why are apps not tested to work on non-admin accounts? because the default accounts are admin! ... : Toraz Chryx
      
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      well to write to specific dirs and regkeys you need admin rights. you can change the acl on these places... : *metal*
      
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      the registry is another idea that needs to fuck off.
      
      Nov 11, 2005 7:04am PST
      
      the registry is another idea that needs to fuck off. : Toraz Chryx
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  Whats great is time can be devoted to making a mac version of this but not the media manager for the psp.... : hube
  - Im sure the exact same department of sony are handling these two things. : bundy

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