If I were feeling really nasty, I'd write a virus that specifically targets StarForce'd machines (it's relatively easy to use WMI/etc. to enumerate drivers, and I don't think you need admin to do that) and ioctls them into oblivion. This is very similar to what happened with Sony's rootkit; it wasn't long before there was a virus in circulation targeting it.
Fortunately, I'm in a good mood, and won't do it.
To Wrex: you fully misunderstand how Windows works. StarForce doesn't use any exploits or elevation in privileges to bork Windows. This is not a Windows vulnerability. The only "weakness" is the tendency of most users to run everything as administrator ("root" for you Unix people). Educating people to create a LUA account would go a long way towards ameliorating this; StarForce wouldn't even install since non-admin's can't install drivers.
Linux (and Mac, for that matter, since it's just Linux with a wood veneer) would be similarly borked if, in order to run a video game, you had to be root and the video game required installation of a kernel driver. Any operating system is vulnerable to this combination of poor user education and social engineering on the part of the malware company ("Click here to continue" when clicking is actually borking your computer...)
The only solution is an economic one: pirate all StarForce games and boycott/sue manufacturers like UbiSoft. Hit them in the pocketbook!
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If I were feeling really nasty, I'd write a virus that specifically targets StarForce'd machines (it's relatively easy to use WMI/etc. to enumerate drivers, and I don't think you need admin to do that) and ioctls them into oblivion. This is very similar to what happened with Sony's rootkit; it wasn't long before there was a virus in circulation targeting it.
Fortunately, I'm in a good mood, and won't do it.
To Wrex: you fully misunderstand how Windows works. StarForce doesn't use any exploits or elevation in privileges to bork Windows. This is not a Windows vulnerability. The only "weakness" is the tendency of most users to run everything as administrator ("root" for you Unix people). Educating people to create a LUA account would go a long way towards ameliorating this; StarForce wouldn't even install since non-admin's can't install drivers.
Linux (and Mac, for that matter, since it's just Linux with a wood veneer) would be similarly borked if, in order to run a video game, you had to be root and the video game required installation of a kernel driver. Any operating system is vulnerable to this combination of poor user education and social engineering on the part of the malware company ("Click here to continue" when clicking is actually borking your computer...)
The only solution is an economic one: pirate all StarForce games and boycott/sue manufacturers like UbiSoft. Hit them in the pocketbook!