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[wolfwings]

And on a much, Much, MUCH lighter note... I've found the Ultimate Spyware Solution. Permissions-based file systems like NTFS have a use after all. Turn off inheritance, set SYSTEM to deny execute only. End of problem. :-)

Well, at least until they make load-and-modify executables that read the spyware off the disk somehow before running it. Then things get trickier on what to block where...

I'm still amazed as just how crappy most protection systems are these days, compared to just what was done with floppy-disk-based games. Not even key-disk stuff, but actual anti-copying code was much better-thought-out then, compared to today's utter crap.