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I've read some other threads where people were asking to disable the Secure Mode programmatically for various reasons. I thought, if you don't want to let me decide whether to enable it or not (manually disabling it with each Windows boot is not really letting me decide), I can write a small tool that just clicks that menu item on each start. But the messages sent were cryptic, it doesn't seem you used the common way to handle menu commands in that case (WM_COMMAND), which seems obvious for a "security" thing.
But can somebody please explain to me what that Secure Mode is actually good for? The manual doesn't even mention it, it looks like that option isn't even there. The only situation when I can see an effect of it is when mounting images through the command line. I've made a small registry snippet that lets me mount and unmount .iso and .bin files through their Explorer context menu. Since I upgraded to D-Tools 4 recently, I always get that annoying message to confirm. I really can't see any security critical issue in invoking D-Tools through the commandline, the only thing I can do here is mounting and unmounting images, which I always want to do intentionally. And if some malicious application should ever run on my computer, it may be able to mount or unmount an image - wow, if it can do that, it can do anything anyway... So what's that all supposed to be? Why are you guys to fixed on not letting the user disabling that option forever? Is my computer at extreme risk when I disable it? Will the next web page I enter delete all my data? Will I get a spybot when I fetch my e-mails? When my virus scanner automatically reactivates on the next reboot, I can understand that. But a virus scanner is a totally different security class than an image mounting programme, to me. Some information would be good. Not just for me.
I've read some other threads where people were asking to disable the Secure Mode programmatically for various reasons. I thought, if you don't want to let me decide whether to enable it or not (manually disabling it with each Windows boot is not really letting me decide), I can write a small tool that just clicks that menu item on each start. But the messages sent were cryptic, it doesn't seem you used the common way to handle menu commands in that case (WM_COMMAND), which seems obvious for a "security" thing.
But can somebody please explain to me what that Secure Mode is actually good for? The manual doesn't even mention it, it looks like that option isn't even there. The only situation when I can see an effect of it is when mounting images through the command line. I've made a small registry snippet that lets me mount and unmount .iso and .bin files through their Explorer context menu. Since I upgraded to D-Tools 4 recently, I always get that annoying message to confirm. I really can't see any security critical issue in invoking D-Tools through the commandline, the only thing I can do here is mounting and unmounting images, which I always want to do intentionally. And if some malicious application should ever run on my computer, it may be able to mount or unmount an image - wow, if it can do that, it can do anything anyway... So what's that all supposed to be? Why are you guys to fixed on not letting the user disabling that option forever? Is my computer at extreme risk when I disable it? Will the next web page I enter delete all my data? Will I get a spybot when I fetch my e-mails? When my virus scanner automatically reactivates on the next reboot, I can understand that. But a virus scanner is a totally different security class than an image mounting programme, to me. Some information would be good. Not just for me.
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