Securom string found in Process Explorer dump of TheSims3.exe
J. M. Pescado:
No protection is ever "good". However, the present protection used, based on my analysis of its behavior and "rootedness", is far weaker than even the old Safedisc protection used in TS2: It exhibits absolutely no reaction to, for instance, your use of Process Explorer (SecuROM would produce a mysterious "Security Module" error under such conditions), does not care about being watched in Registry Monitor (SecuROM would whine about the security module again), and does not react to the presence of Daemon Tools, even without YASU (SecuROM would whine, even Safedisc blacklists). It lacks any of the traditional SecuROM-EA DLLs, like "paul.dll". Furthermore, it can be trivially crippled using circa-1990s cracking techniques. As far as I can tell, it is a half-assed effort thrown together on short notice after the people rioted against SecuROM, and is basically a low-grade anti-idiot copy protection that has zero effect on anyone with half a brain...which, frankly, is about as much as you can expect out of a copy protection: It's just as useless as far more expensive and difficult protections, but at least it probably didn't cost much to make. As far as I can tell, it is either extremely sophisticated at hiding its activities and yet totally ineffective at doing its actual job, or it is simply harmless.
Nightmare:
But I have seen similar Securom issues in the sims 3 forum. No recognized DVD. Emulation errors. Are these fake? Could it be we are dealing again with Sony paid users to post on forums?
J. M. Pescado:
It is possible that different regions may carry different protections, but I've dissected this thing throughly. I know exactly WHEN the copy protection check fires (it's far too late for it to be producing DVD errors), and exactly what messages it is capable of printing out. None of those messages are even *IN* there! Those people are probably running either the Online version (which reportedly does contain SecuROM), or the prereleases (which also contained SecuROM).
Nightmare:
I donīt understand EA then. They should have dropped Securom earlier. They still have suffered from Securom scandals and bad PR. It is clear that this option is better than keeping SecuMierda, but they should have done earlier.
Nightmare:
Quote from: Jordi on 2009 June 15, 13:17:00
Ubisoft dropped DRM for the last PoP which did not sell well, and apparently faced harsh criticism from the industry 'tards over this. Their future games will be infested again.
Soruce please?
Pes, what is your opinion about Securom running, performing processes, or communicating with the RING0 to detect V-drives in stealth mode? Securom runs in RING3 to perform its detection, but some of my sources tell that it communicates with the RING0.
Is that true?
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