Beware of Daemon Tools

Just downloaded Daemon tools and Vipre was screaming at me.. Disabled Vipre because I figured this was a false positive and Daemon Tools had some piggy back toolbars and trovi search hijacks. No bueno

Just wanted to throw out a warning.

Hi Moe long time no see
Where did you download from ?

Win 7 has the ability to mount ISOs built-in so not much need of Daemon Tools anyway...

ThrashZone said:

Hi Moe long time no see
Where did you download from ?

Hey Thrash, yeah I've been busy with work and family lately. After finally breaking in I've just been focused on learning as much as possible.

I got it straight from Daemons website although it did redirect to another site for the download (disk-tools.com) which after more research after the fact, turns out to be a known problem with corrupt files. You would think Daemon Tools devs would find a more reliable host...

strollin said:

Win 7 has the ability to mount ISOs built-in so not much need of Daemon Tools anyway...

This particular PC is running embedded 8.1 and (apparently) doesn't come with one. I ended up just downloading Virtual Clondrive.

out of all the virtual drive programs POWER ISO has hands down been the best.

this is the link to there website. I run both Microsoft security essentials and AVG, I scanned with both an it comes up clean.
PowerISO - Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive, DAA File

I do a lot of gaming so I needed one that could stand the test of time.

by the way this is the link to the free version. I haven't tried the pay version yet. but the free version should do everything you need it for.

Daemon tools has always been trash software for awhile now. Causes a lot of bsods as well.

Very important rule which you have learned:

NEVER disable your antivirus when it starts screaming.

strollin said:

Win 7 has the ability to mount ISOs built-in so not much need of Daemon Tools anyway...

Can you explain how? Never heard of seen that.

Kaktussoft said:

strollin said:

Win 7 has the ability to mount ISOs built-in so not much need of Daemon Tools anyway...

Can you explain how? Never heard of seen that.

Same here. Burn iso yes. But not mount. I am assuming they meant burn.

andrew129260 said:

Daemon tools has always been trash software for awhile now. Causes a lot of bsods as well.

Very important rule which you have learned:

NEVER disable your antivirus when it starts screaming.

Yeah I know, I should have known better but the 'cant be touched' attitude kicked in, lol.

I haven't really had any need to mount anything in a super long time and didn't know how bad Daemon has gotten.

No problem :) Next time use sandboxie or a vm, then you can be curious all you want