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Creative's new drivers ate my porn
DEAREST INQ scribes, Ed and everyone,
So I decided to install the newest drivers update for my Creative X-Fi Extreme Music, that the company recently released. After a year or more waiting, new shiny drivers, imagine that. I can't say I didn't know what I am going to get into, reading the INQ articles about Creative and all.
Previous reports on beta version released a month or so ago indicated that the new XP/Vista drivers updated the soundcard's firmware and they were practically impossible to uninstall then, because the old drivers didn't work with the new firmware. Also, some users on the forums were quite unhappy with more cracking sounds, etc. But I decided to ignore all these forum whiners and go on bravely with the install. What can happen, right?
New drivers uninstalled the old ones and proceeded on with self-install. At the end of a successful instalation a restart was required. I had like 1,5 GBs free space then, because my drive was overflowing with about 50 gigs of pr0n in the c![:\](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/vb/fslash.gif ":\ :\")
temp\ directory. It was a fine collection, I must say, I was supposed to sort it one day and put in on DVDs or something, but never got around to it.
After the reboot Windows XP started loading, the welcome screen appeared, desktop, tray apps started loading. Loading never finished. ZoneAlarm and Skype just didn't load, mouse cursor was all the time displayed as sandwatch. After 5 minutes I lost my patience and tried to do something:
Task Manager didn't appear, nothing worked. I had to manually hard-reset the computer. After another reboot the Windows loaded fine, sound worked, movies and mp3s played. Great. Also, as another benefit, I suddenly had 52GBs free on my 160GB drive. WHAT!!!!?????
Somehow, something erased almost all of my files in the Ctemp\
directory, along with all subdirectories. Mostly pr0n, some avi movies.
Only 2 small wmv files remained, otherwise all 50 gigs of MY DATA were gone. I tried to undelete the files with several windows apps but only succeeded undeleting about 10 percent of the whole erased amount. 45 gigs of my stuff gone forever.
Now, I know what you guys think, but I just couldn't erase the data myself, that's just not possible. I am a power user, damn it, I am able to erase spyware by hand, not using automated software. I KNOW when I erase something. And it's just impossible that I would erase 50 gigs of data, along with all subdirs from one directory and leave 2 files completely intact!! I don't have a virus either. I don't know what could have happened or why Creative did this to me. Has anything happened when I had to reset the computer because it never finished loading the desktop apps?
The drivers must have been religious zealots, I reckon. Or in porn slang: you f$ &#$ with Creative, you get f$*@#$* by Creative. Linux users learned it. Vista users learned it. Now I have learned it. Period.
You're free to publish this in entirety or in parts.
Best Regards and keep writing good stuff,
Name, e-mail address witheld
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Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/28/creative-drivers-ate-porn
DEAREST INQ scribes, Ed and everyone,
So I decided to install the newest drivers update for my Creative X-Fi Extreme Music, that the company recently released. After a year or more waiting, new shiny drivers, imagine that. I can't say I didn't know what I am going to get into, reading the INQ articles about Creative and all.
Previous reports on beta version released a month or so ago indicated that the new XP/Vista drivers updated the soundcard's firmware and they were practically impossible to uninstall then, because the old drivers didn't work with the new firmware. Also, some users on the forums were quite unhappy with more cracking sounds, etc. But I decided to ignore all these forum whiners and go on bravely with the install. What can happen, right?
New drivers uninstalled the old ones and proceeded on with self-install. At the end of a successful instalation a restart was required. I had like 1,5 GBs free space then, because my drive was overflowing with about 50 gigs of pr0n in the c
temp\ directory. It was a fine collection, I must say, I was supposed to sort it one day and put in on DVDs or something, but never got around to it.After the reboot Windows XP started loading, the welcome screen appeared, desktop, tray apps started loading. Loading never finished. ZoneAlarm and Skype just didn't load, mouse cursor was all the time displayed as sandwatch. After 5 minutes I lost my patience and tried to do something:
Task Manager didn't appear, nothing worked. I had to manually hard-reset the computer. After another reboot the Windows loaded fine, sound worked, movies and mp3s played. Great. Also, as another benefit, I suddenly had 52GBs free on my 160GB drive. WHAT!!!!?????
Somehow, something erased almost all of my files in the C
temp\directory, along with all subdirectories. Mostly pr0n, some avi movies.
Only 2 small wmv files remained, otherwise all 50 gigs of MY DATA were gone. I tried to undelete the files with several windows apps but only succeeded undeleting about 10 percent of the whole erased amount. 45 gigs of my stuff gone forever.
Now, I know what you guys think, but I just couldn't erase the data myself, that's just not possible. I am a power user, damn it, I am able to erase spyware by hand, not using automated software. I KNOW when I erase something. And it's just impossible that I would erase 50 gigs of data, along with all subdirs from one directory and leave 2 files completely intact!! I don't have a virus either. I don't know what could have happened or why Creative did this to me. Has anything happened when I had to reset the computer because it never finished loading the desktop apps?
The drivers must have been religious zealots, I reckon. Or in porn slang: you f$ &#$ with Creative, you get f$*@#$* by Creative. Linux users learned it. Vista users learned it. Now I have learned it. Period.
You're free to publish this in entirety or in parts.
Best Regards and keep writing good stuff,
Name, e-mail address witheld
µ
Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/28/creative-drivers-ate-porn
