msanto, Shoebedobedoo, oliwan and captqbec all used our news submit to tell us that Daemon Tools has released the next version of this very popular utility. You may experience a bit of trouble accessing the site as it seems to be overloaded at the moment due to this new release. In the meantime, you can read the notes and change log below.
In case you don’t know about Daemon Tools yet, the software provides a virtual CD/DVD-ROM on your computer with which you can directly mount image files created by various other software packages. Daemon Tools can also emulate many popular copy protections so that you can always play your back-ups, even when your drive normally cannot copy the protection.
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Notes regarding the 4.0 release: Dear DT-Community, Today, we release the new V4.00. As we already heard from our customers, it fixes indeed most or even all blacklists – however, it is STILL a SCSI-Emulator, therefore it”s still necessary to remove present IDE-Drives! As nearly all protections now block ALL SCSI-Drives, no matter if REAL or VIRTUAL, you need to DISABLE your ide-drives! This version is more or less only a “next step”, it does NOT contain an IDE-Jammer atm. However, we are working on it and will hopefully have it ready soon. So be warned – do NOT complain about the “lack” of the IDE-Jammer-Device. We release it now, as is. It fullfilles its job as long as no IDE is present in System or you otherwise block that IDE-nodes. After all it”s STILL free! Another important change is the integration of ADWARE. Yes, we need that revenues. However, we decided to let YOU choose to run it with ADWARE and support us – or simple turn it OFF in installation-process and run it same way as former versions – without ADWARE. By default, it is turned ON – to not install that ADWARE, please UNCHECK at installation “DAEMON TOOLS SEARCHBAR” (or you can remove it anytime later when you wish via “Control Panel”-> “Add/Remove programs”) We leave that decision to you, so please don”t blame us that we did it that way. It was a compromise to continue the free support – we would much appreciate it if you install that ADWARE-stuff. We set- up a special forum so please post in THAT forum only about questions, concerns or anything else that is related to that ADWARE. The forum”s name is “DAEMON Tools Searchbar”. To sum it up:- NO IDE-Jammer atm – we are working on it! No ETA for it – it”s done when it”s done! – ADWARE INCLUDED – you can, however, UNCHECK that ADWARE at installation! The changelog for V4:
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Again: This version is an “in between” step to fix latest issues not only with protections but also many other issues and installation-problems. We work hard to release soon next update! |
You can visit this link to choose between two different servers for the download. They are both slow of course at the moment. In addition, for more information or just to discuss this important new release, you may wish to visit this thread in the Club CD
Freaks Forums that
target="">Shoebedobedoo put up for this purpose!
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| I like daemon tools but I keep hearing that this update has spyware in, a searchbar, not sure if its true |
In fairness I don't think anyone can bitch about them including adware in this release 1. They don't charge for the software 2. The installation of adware is optional In fairness people get a good deal in the end 
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