MASSIVE SECURITY HAZARD in Spore!

[J. M. Pescado]

That is ridiculous. Why the fuck would they even *CARE* what time it is? Clearly this is some sort of weird nosy behavior practice, although why they would want to spy on your CLOCK is beyond me.

[nekonoai]

Penis creatures?

[jsalemi]

Yea, the 12's think its funny to make Spore creatures that look like walking penises.

[Zazazu]

Seriously, the day of creature creator release. Check YouTube for "Spore penis".

[EsotericPolarBear]

That is ridiculous. Why the fuck would they even *CARE* what time it is? Clearly this is some sort of weird nosy behavior practice, although why they would want to spy on your CLOCK is beyond me.

I'm assuming the thought process goes something like this:

XBL autoupdates time.
all Xboxes should share the same time.
any Xbox with a different time is modded, thus evil, thus a dirty dirty cheater, kill it! kill it with fire!

But that's just me guessing.

[karthikthepro]

I've a question about this particular behavior of sporeapp.exe. When I used the SysInternals Process monitor, I can clearly see SporeApp.exe for some reason opening, reading, closing Norton Antivirus 2008's VIRSCAN7.DAT file. Attached is a log file of all accesses. I would need some clarification.

Is this some sort of unwanted security hazard of running Spore.

Regards,
Karthik

[Tsenatserix]

I don't have an answer, but I have a suggestion: Don't use Norton. It's terrible.