TheRegister reports that Roxio's Easy CD Creator is fucking up Windows 2000 systems. Roxio has put up a warning on their site, and it's advise to use the custom installation and deselect Take Two that is a part of the package.
The developer of the software, Roxio, has put up a security notice on its site saying that a "small percentage" of people using the Windows 2000 OS have experienced some problems with its leading product. |
The advice disingenuously says there are two problems connected with a full install of the software. One, "a blue screen error" aka the blue screen of death and two, the computer takes an extremely long time to boot. That sounds bad enough but we have it on good authority that the software is even more malignant than that.
"This is the first piece of software I have ever found which is capable of comprehensively trashing a working PC," one reader has told us. "I spent six hours last night trying and failing to recover this machine and will have to spend similar amount tomorrow rebuilding it." Usenet contains many similar tales.
Source: TheRegister
