The caveat is that doing so will render the systems vulnerable again. The same Knowledge Base articles offers a workaround to play these games on patched systems again. This has the consequence that games that rely on Safedisc won't work anymore on all systems the patch was installed on. The driver secdrv.sys is used by Macrovision's SafeDisc copy protection scheme. The description on Microsoft's Knowledge Base adds that the security bulletin "addresses a defense-in-depth update for the secdrv.sys driver, a third-party driver" by turning the service for the driver off. The security bulletin itself mentions that the update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Lync which attackers could exploit to run code remotely on affected systems. These are all old games released more than 10 years ago but still playable on modern systems. Games that rely on Safedisc include the Age of Empire series, Battlefield 1942, Civilization 3, various Command and Conquer games or Microsoft Flight Simulator. Microsoft update breaks Safedisc games on Windows Vista, 7 and 8Ī recent security patch released this month, MS15-097 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Graphics Component Could Allow Remote Code Execution, breaks computer games that rely on the DRM system Safedisc on Microsoft's Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating system.
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