Nero 6 'Bug' that could wipe your hard drive
Spinner
Birmingham, UK
Looks like Ahead have their first big Nero 6 blunder to clean up. The German online magazine PCwelt.de has discovered a 'bug' in the latest version of the popular CD/DVD burning and editing software.
The bug is specifically concerning Nero 6 Recode, a tool designed to beef up poor quality videos. The problem surrounds the feature which allows you to delete temporary files, if you select the wrong folder location, or more relevantly the root of a hard drive, it will quite happily wipe the whole thing clean for you.
Ahead have issued a statement assuring that a patch is in the works, and that it will be available very soon.
Something to look forward to I guess. For now though, I've got some accidental hard drive wiping to get on with.
The full report:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7638
The bug is specifically concerning Nero 6 Recode, a tool designed to beef up poor quality videos. The problem surrounds the feature which allows you to delete temporary files, if you select the wrong folder location, or more relevantly the root of a hard drive, it will quite happily wipe the whole thing clean for you.
Ahead have issued a statement assuring that a patch is in the works, and that it will be available very soon.
Something to look forward to I guess. For now though, I've got some accidental hard drive wiping to get on with.
Per default, the local TEMP folder is designated as the temporary storage directory for Nero Recode files.
Please ensure that the TEMP folder does NOT contain important data!
Before erasing the folder content, a warning appears which points out that all files will be deleted! This could result in serious data losses! Especially in case that you choose drive "C:" as target or TEMP directory for Nero Recode, all data on drive "C:" will be erased after you confirmed the warning!
The full report:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7638
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Actually, you could do this with Deltree in DOS, linux's rm -Rf * command if in root direcory and logged in as root, and other operating systems.yuo should need to use a file type decalrationwith something like Nero, although it probably does have to recurse within the temporary directory at least two levels.
What some programs do is force a certain work directory name for work directory base, although they let you stick it on your choice of logical partition. That actually is the best compromise., IMHO. Then you path check for that name, and do not delete if it is not in the top directory target path.
Does it do it only in XP, or possibly only on XP installed as single user and on other operating systems and not work on XP installed with multiple user IDs?? See, single user XP installs ARE root\admin IDs by default. For XP, folks should not run apps as admin-- rather they should run everyday apps as a user and move into the user's program area the ordinary apps used every day. Then, XP will stop that kind of whole drive erasure and even shut down the programs if need be. Otherwise you ARE bypassing all sorts of safeguards built into the code.