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? >
And honestly I only *suspect* it may be the cause. I don't remember exactly when the first time I noticed the problem was but I *think* it was around the time I installed Daemon Tools. Not 100% sure though. I'd buy into the HD-getting-ready-to-fail argument more if I saw weirdness on Windows too, but I don't. At least not yet. Plus scans of the HD with both Tuneup Utilities and Windows itself are not turning anything up. -- 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/