BioShock Installs a Rootkit

**sergers** · 08-24-2007, 09:59 PM

false positives ftw!

**enz660** · 08-24-2007, 10:05 PM

Good thing im going to format my hdd soon...

I understand this is only speculation...

BUT

it already limits us from installing more than twice, which in itself, I find ridiculous and frankly, unfair.

NOW

Judging this, i fear that we have no reason NOT to believe bioshock installs a rootkit.

Great job on letting us know how to get rid of this filth from out computers SaII!

**Diverge** · 08-24-2007, 10:27 PM

Good thing i keep True Image backups of my system at different increments. Windows install, updates, essential programs.. once i start playing with something that messes up my system, i restore to the point where i have my pc setup the way i like it, no games, ect.

**thephenom** · 08-24-2007, 10:42 PM

So should I buy this game in retail instead of steam just so I can be part of the class-action lawsuit someone will file in a few weeks?

**nn_step** · 08-24-2007, 10:44 PM

wow and I was considering actually buying the game

**enz660** · 08-24-2007, 10:47 PM

maybe i can just play it on a friend's computer

**safan80** · 08-24-2007, 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by [XC] leviathan18

ding ding ding bingo thats what i meant in my head it sounded like that LOL i guess from time to time my english just sucks.....

i love when people post the solution to the problem

that information is in the link in the first post he just copied it from there.

**MikeB12** · 08-24-2007, 11:45 PM

HA! I just played the demo on Vista 32 when it came out earlier this week. My 64bit media came in from MS and I formatted and installed 64 on Thurs; haven't installed the demo yet. AND WILL NOT NOW!

Thanks for the heads up...

**KoHaN69** · 08-24-2007, 11:45 PM

**zerazax** · 08-24-2007, 11:45 PM

Rootkits don't work on 64bit right now so you'd be safe

**sergers** · 08-25-2007, 12:12 AM

Originally Posted by zerazax

Rootkits don't work on 64bit right now so you'd be safe

**MikeB12** · 08-25-2007, 12:32 AM

Originally Posted by zerazax

Rootkits don't work on 64bit right now so you'd be safe

Classic!

**zanzabar** · 08-25-2007, 12:46 AM

Originally Posted by zerazax

Rootkits don't work on 64bit right now so you'd be safe

thats like there is no viruses for lunix or unix or osx, or vista

**zerazax** · 08-25-2007, 12:53 AM

I forgot the

smilie

**Special_K** · 08-25-2007, 01:34 AM

Originally Posted by SaII

Download RegDelNull here and place in C:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...egDelNull.mspx

can you fix the link pls

**Ubermann** · 08-25-2007, 01:42 AM

Sony did this ?

**BeyondSciFi** · 08-25-2007, 01:46 AM

Speaking of rootkits... does anyone know of any good free ANTI-rootkit software?

**~~Omastar~~** · 08-25-2007, 01:51 AM

I saw this one coming!

**sergers** · 08-25-2007, 02:00 AM

I think its safe to say that most here did NOT read the entire article... -_-;;

**Thesavage** · 08-25-2007, 02:01 AM

Toms even has a video discussion on the install twice saga.

**tssen** · 08-25-2007, 04:00 AM

Originally Posted by sergers

I think its safe to say that most here did NOT read the entire article... -_-;;

+1

If one reads the comments on slashdot and the ones following the original article you realize that there isn't much controversy here. As far as I understand it it isn't worse than any other copyprotection out there. Of course you might have issues with copyprotection and antipiracy measures in general, but this particular story have generated more fuzz than it deserved.
Fire!! No... wait... Rootkit!!

Nice that we now know how to disable secuROM though.

**NightCrawler™** · 08-25-2007, 04:23 AM

People should invest less time in protecting a product and more in getting a fully functional bug free product...

**nFo** · 08-25-2007, 04:26 AM

Originally Posted by safan80

yeah I'm going to wait to see if they make a patch to fix all the junk... including widescreen not being widscreen... I think I might pass on this game if they don't fix the widescreen problem.

Bioshock has not really a widescreen bug.

Scoll down to here:
THE TRUTH ABOUT WIDESCREEN

And here:
UPDATES ON SECUROM™, PC ACTIVATION, AND A TECHNICAL FAQ

And as for widescreen, we also want to say we completely understand a user's desire to augment their FOV. BioShock is a harrowing experience, but we don't want anyone to feel limited (or motion sick!). So we are in the process of working on an official PC patch to give widescreen PC users a choice to expand their horizontal FOV, and are investigating creating a similar update for the 360.

But there is a fix for it: bioshockFOV

**squilliam** · 08-25-2007, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by xenolith

I'm pretty sure lev was criticizing why the crap was installed in the first place, not SaII's post.

I think it's a good fundamental question that needs to be answered. Why does a freely release demo need such a grossly invasive copy-protection scheme?

Two possibilities:
A) They were too lazy to take it out of the first level.
B) It would have taken too long to remove it from the first level.

**xsbb** · 08-25-2007, 06:15 AM

That stinks

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