Daemon Tools

The Daemon Tools are available in different versions. For home they are free of charge. The commercial use, however, requires a paid registration. Daemon Tools is proprietary software.

Technical details

Like other emulators this type can be virtualized optical through Daemon Tools drives (eg CD or DVD ). Here, previously known as memory dumps of optical media are created to then play from the hard disk in a virtual disk.

The virtual drive is thereby integrated into the operating system that it seems as if befände an additional drive in the computer used. For the user, it differs in the service not of physical drives.

Areas of application

Like other emulators this type, Daemon tools saves the changes of volumes to run mass memory different programs instead of another (larger) or to install them, which additionally (eg scratches) prevents wear on the disk. In addition, the program can be used to load software, which is marketed in the form of an image. In Daemon Tools Lite it is possible to create up to four virtual drives and thus to load multiple images simultaneously. Daemon Tools can using rootkit technologies many current copy protection methods, such as SafeDisc, SecuROM or StarForce Tagès deal. To counteract this, some programs refuse to start on computers running Daemon Tools is installed.

Supported Formats

  • B6T ( BlindWrite 6)
  • B5T ( BlindWrite 5)
  • Bwt ( Blindwrite, older versions)
  • Ccd ( CloneCD )
  • Cdi ( DiscJuggler )
  • Cue / bin
  • Img
  • Mds (Media Descriptor File - since version 4:09 encrypted and compressed)
  • Mdx ( Advanced Media Descriptor File )
  • Nrg (Nero Burning ROM )
  • Isz ( UltraISO - encrypted and compressed)

Plug-ins support for other formats can be added.

Adware

Daemon Tools Lite contained from 4 to version 4.12.4 adware from WhenU.com. During installation, the possibility existed to decide whether the adware to be installed, this option was enabled by default.

Daemon Tools Pro Basic contains this adware still, the installation is not voluntary, but mandatory.

Lite

The Lite version ( in German: "light" ) of Daemon Tools is freeware and has limited functionality. You can emulate up to four optical drives over an icon in the taskbar and its context menu. In addition, various settings can still be made via a separate window.

Per

The flagship of DT Soft Ltd.. is Daemon Tools Pro ( for " professional," and " DTPro " called ). The most striking difference to the Lite version is the enhanced graphical user interface. With this program it is possible to create images of all the CDs and DVDs in Media Descriptor Image format. These can be compressed and encrypted with a password.

Daemon Tools Pro can handle up to 32 virtual drives. A salient feature is the vide adapter. This can no longer be created (also called VIDE ) only, as usually, virtual SCSI drives, but also up to four virtual IDE drives. In order for the blacklisting issue is addressed by various copy protection methods VSCSI drives.

Another feature is a utility that can be converted with the existing images to the MDS format and subsequently encrypted or compressed.

Versions of Daemon Tools Pro

Daemon Tools Pro is published in four different versions: Basic ( Adware or trial ), Standard and Advanced. These differ in functionality and price.

Supported file types

Dealing with copyright protection technologies

Daemon Tools Pro is able to create images of very many game CDs and DVDs that are protected with the latest copy protection technology. One of the most important new features is the so called Tagès Dumper, which makes it possible to read out the data from twin Tagès media.

Burning images

With Daemon Tools Pro Advanced, it is possible to burn images, so the use of an additional disc burning software is not required.

Activation

To activate Daemon Tools Pro, an internet connection is required. The license is available exclusively for a particular hardware configuration is detected by means of a hardware key. Thus, the program is not disabled, it must at least once a month to access the Internet. If the user has a new hardware configuration, it must be his old license revoked in order to get one for the new system.

Criticism

Daemon Tools is criticized for to monitor user behavior with regard to the images used and evaluated through a third party. Even if explicitly specified during the installation that you do not consent to the monitoring of user behavior and the logging of program activities, yet all the data to the internal statistics service Mount Space will be redirected. This statistic service was introduced with version DAEMON Tools Lite 4.40.1, older versions should not therefore be affected. The collected personal data includes, for example, Image hash, image file name, volume name and number of integrations that are associated with the IP addresses of the users. From data protection can be no question, if necessary, can also drag the user criminally relevant consequences this kind log data.

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