To delete or not

[hawk7771us]

Secdrv, SafeDisc driver by macrovision. I do not know how this driver got in stalled in system32. This is not a game machine. What I would like to know is , how safe it would be to delete it. lol It just drm crap. Just need a little input about this driver before i do take it out. Been to google on it but no real help.
Thanks hawk

[larrycu]

Secdrv, SafeDisc driver by macrovision- This isn't a gaming driver. It's a protection driver to protect against unauthorized burning of digital info . By distort color and other things. It's turned on by the DVD that's being played. It was put there purposely I guess before you bought the computer or was put on there with an installed program. Deleting it might cause dominoe effect. It's specificately there for copyrighted protection.

[hawk7771us]

Thanks for the info larrycu.
I found out how it got onto the putter. It came from a free cd that sony/bmg r j reynolds gave out with a pack of smokes. The gas station owner gave it to me. I had auto run on at the time. When I listen to it.So that how i got that driver and few other thing i do not want. Thanks again. Let you know what happens when i get rid of it.

[Sylvander]

See Sony Installs RootKit With Music CD (http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=41660&highlight=Sony).
If this is what has happened to you it's not going to be easy to eliminate this.

The best thing to do for the future is to set up a system of making image backups of your system partition that can be made & restored even when Windows won't boot.
Then to "jump back" to a previous software setup [it would eliminate things such as this completely] you just [perhaps zero-fill the partition and] restore a backup.
I try to make backups just before installing something [if that fits in nicely with my backup timing arrangements], and keep a selection of backups going back in time.

KILLDISK (http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm) is good for zero-filling chosen partitions, or the whole HDD.

1. How to make a free “Smart Boot Manager” floppy
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=41498
This makes it easier to boot a chosen drive [particularly the one holding the EBCD].

2. How to make a free EBCD bootable CD
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=41485
This has a number of useful utilities included including "Image" [for DOS, by Terabyte] & "File Manager".
Image is a good free trial backup program, but you need [to make] a FAT32 partition [separate to the ones you backup] to save the image backup files to.
It will backup [and restore to] ANY kind of partition.

[hawk7771us]

Sylvander thanks for the info Went to Sysinternals. I do not have the rootkit from sony installed just their drivers. Which is still a pain in the ass. Took them out with autorun. Hijackthis had some entries in it also. Had also a back up of the registry restored it.

[Sylvander]

Everything lookin' good? :)

[hawk7771us]

A few more bugs to get out but other than that lookin good. Got lucky with this one. I usally do not have autorun on. Never will again.I believe if you play it on your putter it installs the drivers any way.

[Sylvander]

"Got lucky with this one"
Somebody famous was quoted as saying...
People say I'm lucky, but I notice that the harder I work the luckier I get. :D