[geeks] filtering out web base trojan?

[Micah R Ledbetter]

Phil Stracchino wrote:

> And made worse by the fact thatn in nine out of ten cases, the game 
> doesn't NEED administrator privileges; it's just that the company that 
> produced the game was lazy.  This is very common with educational games 
> - often, not only do they require administrator privilege to install, 
> but your kids can't even save games unless you give them write 
> privileges to the game install folder because the game designer was just 
> too bloody lazy to have the game save in a user-owned folder.

A lot of times, it also/instead has to do with the bullshit copy 
protection that comes with your game as a free upgrade :). I seem to 
recall something about a copy control scheme requiring direct hardware 
access to get raw reads from the cd drive (or something), which 
(apparently) needs Administrator access under Windows XP.

  - Micah