How do you remove autorun.exe from a pre-made mini-image?

[Xophile]

Hey guys!

I recently started thinking about playing some multiplayer BFME1 and popped the CD right in and installed it and patched it to the latest version (1.03). I also downloaded the mini-image from gamecopyworld.com so I don't have to use that darn CD every time I want to run my game. Everything works perfect but then I thought about the idea to create a simple batchfile which

1. Mounts the mini-image
2. Start BFME1.exe
3. Wait for it to quit and then unmount the mini-image

This also works 100% but I get annoyed by the autostart.exe "inside" the .mds mini-image which open all the files from the mini-image. Is there a simple app that can simply delete autostart.exe and autostart.inf without "destroying" the mini-image?

I tried opening it with UltraISO but the program crashed after importing say 700.000+ files/directories

Any ideas?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Rename the AUTORUN.INF file inside the ISO; yes, with some ISO utility (or a hex editor ).

[Xophile]

Thanks for your reply Joe but as I wrote in my first post I tried opening the iso but UltraISO simply crashed while opening the file.

Any other suggestions for a good iso-editing program?

Hex editor is way beyond me

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hmmm, perhaps, a simple automatic patch would also be sufficient: it runs through the ISO file and replaces all "AUTORUN.INF" strings (including those in Unicode, in the Joliet file system with long file names!) to, say, "AUTORUN.IN ". Drop me an E-mail and I'll make one during the weekend (no time for this at work...).

[Mason]

I'm surprised that you even have autorun active. The revelation that rootkits are being installed by store-bought audio CDs really opened my eyes to the security hole that autorun creates.

[Joe Forster/STA]

See http://sta.c64.org/shared/AUTORUN_INF.ZIP for a small generic patch. Dunno how well it works, though. Included is the patch script, to be compiled with apatch to get the EXE.

[jhuk]

I like autorun it does me more good than bad, simply hold down LEFT SHIFT key if your going to pop in a audio cd you think may have protection, anyhow MS nuked root crap with there Antispy tool (now Defender) long ago.