WOW
That is all I can say. I found a file called CmdLineExt02.dll and couldn't delete it so I did some research.
Turns out is is supposed to be part of copy protection software. Now the only game I have installed on my machine (aside from the Novalogic title "Black Hawk Down") is the EA games title "Cricket 2005".
Upon diggin deeper I found that A LOT of my favourite games use this technology and some even make use of software that installs root kits or derivitives of. This is quiet a scary thought as I do all my banking online. Now if some stupid hacker tool hooks up with the root kit there is no ways my anti virus software is going pick it up.
So I have decided to effectively remove all the games from my machine until I can establish which vendor is running what.
To the software vendors I would like to say this. You are inconveniencing the lives of legitimate users with all of this nonsense. ALL software can be cracked and anyone that is using cracked software knows there is a risk attached to it. No my question to you is this. Is it safer to use the legitimate software with all of this nonsense going round? You guys are shooting yourselves in the foot by doing this. Me for one will not buy any more EA titles (which is a disappointment as I was really enjoying the Battlefield 2)
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