Comments on: DxO and Pace Anti-Piracy Scandal!!

By: xPreatorianx

xPreatorianx — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:16:11 +0000

What they are doing is obfuscating (I hope that’s the right word.) the registry settings in a horrible effort to deter pirates from simply copying all the needed files and bundling them in another installer. Basically it’s security by obscurity. They sit there and produce a whole shit load of registry keys plus bogus files in an effort to hide the real critical files. But the funny thing is most monitoring software can pick it all up like you did with the post, so it’s already negated.

By: Reticuli

Reticuli — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:20:12 +0000

Sony BMG, not BMI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

By: Reticuli

Reticuli — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:03:38 +0000

sorry, against Pace, like BMI.

By: Reticuli

Reticuli — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:03:07 +0000

I installed the demo for Avid Torq 2.02 and it asked me if I agreed to Pace being installed. I clicked No and it installed in the background anyway. Under services.msc I can see it running in there. Isn’t that technically a felony behavior for a software company? It’s against laws passed by Congress regarding viruses, computer piracy, and malicious software. If you click No and it installs anyway, that company committed a crime, can be prosecuted, and you furthermore have civil standing in court against them. BMI was fined and sued extensively by the federal government and states around the country for that kind of behavior with software that did far less to your computer than Pace apparently does. Since it installed, Virtual DJ now longer works correctly. It was fine before, now it crashes constantly and re-installing VDJ won’t fix it. I say this is begging for a class-action suit as occurred against BMI.

By: WAP-Tek

WAP-Tek — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:16:26 +0000

many scanners block PACE as it “acts” just like
every other spyware, malware, and virus by
providing no informed consent, hiding that it was installed,
including no explicit uninstall, activley preventing removal
and inducing system “issues” in most laptops or netbooks

I got a 3d web and program builder that made codeing easy ,
when you make something the client browser used
a 500k plugin ,, BUT then unity3d (and maybe its browser plugin)
installed “PACE Anti-Piracy” and TPkd.sys ,,,,
FAIL!

By: Mr T

Mr T — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:06:31 +0000

I will never read another newsletter from DXO that I keep getting spammed with again… Never mind let one of their Value added installers near my systems again…. shocking!

By: DxO Adware Spyware Virus Spam Rubbish

DxO Adware Spyware Virus Spam Rubbish — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:52:31 +0000

Thanks for your info! I installed DxO to have a look and quickly uninstalled it after seeing all the rubbish that it co-installed. Your loss DxO, you are losing sales because of this rubbish!

By: Dandroid

Dandroid — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:35:21 +0000

If anyone has a simple, step by step explanation as to how I can remove any, and all, PACE crap from my G5 I would LOVE to hear from you!!!

My computer’s been crashing for a while now, and I can’t get any work done thanks to these underhand scumbags………short of a fresh install I don’t know what to do!!!!!

Please contact me at dandroid76@lycos.com

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