Solved Beware of Daemon Tools

[Gator]

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.

 

[ThrashZone]

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

 

[strollin]

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

 

[Gator]

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...

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.

 

[rage]

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.

 

[andrew129260]

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.

 

[Kaktussoft]

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.

 

[andrew129260]

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.

 

[Gator]

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.

 

[andrew129260]

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

 

[strollin]

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.

Simply double-click on an ISO and Win 7 (or 8) will mount it.

 

[Layback Bear]

I can't remember when Daemon Tools was considered good unless one likes the color blue on their screen.

 

[strollin]

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.

Simply double-click on an ISO and Win 7 (or 8) will mount it.

Sorry, my mistake. This feature isn't available in Win 7 only Win 8.

 

[andrew129260]

I can't remember when Daemon Tools was considered good unless one likes the color blue on their screen.

hehe

Can you explain how? Never heard of seen that.

Simply double-click on an ISO and Win 7 (or 8) will mount it.

Sorry, my mistake. This feature isn't available in Win 7 only Win 8.

Ok that is what I thought. Didn't know that windows 8 could do that though. That might be the one and only plus to windows 8 for me.

 

[mt12345]

how about WinCDEmu (never tried myself)?