Sony being evil

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Also, the copy-protection nasty software can be defeated by disabling the stupid autorun feature in Windows.  It's as simple as pressing a "shift" key while inserting the disc.
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The first thing I do on a new Win 2k installation since it came out and started doing that crap (or maybe it was 98 or whatever OS started doing it) is to go into the registry and disable autorun on the CD/DVD drives.

I guess it comes from growing up with computers that an OS shouldn't be running executables indescriminantly. Maybe that's why Windows security is such a joke and spyware/adware is so prevalent. I would have thought that the email "viruses" would have made this more apparent than it seems to be.

Maybe I'm alone in thinking this, but my opinion is that user security as a whole is a larger issue, and that programs like WoW and Battlefield 2 should never need Administrator priveleges. That games need such high level priveleges is the bane of my existence, as I can't give my brother-in-law a machine with a restricted privelige account to ensure I don't get a call every week because his machine is clogged with junk like spyware, adware, or viruses.