Does this sound like a SecuROM side effect?
veilchen:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 October 06, 17:18:28
I've never seen a HIDDEN partition on a hard drive, but most people do not bother to re-fdisk and perform a full wipe of the drive. For full, proper purges, I remove the control board from the drive and degauss the platters.
I sure wish I could understand what that means in regular English (which is still not my first language either ;)), because I'm leaning more and more toward removing BV and this offensive malware - or try to - and using alternate means of play. I've never done that before, so that could be an interesting learning experience. I've heard about it, read about it, and so on, but it never entered my mind to actually try it...., until now that is.
I'm having no problems with BV, or SecuRom - yet - and this computer here only has to last another year. I sure as hell am not shipping a 10 year old desk-top PC overseas. It's the principle of the thing. I did not give permission to anyone to install controversial software/rootkit ware. They may have the right to protect their game from piracy (which this Sony-garbage doesn't do), but I have the right to protect my computer and all that is on it. I decide who has administrative rights on my machine, not EAxis/Sony.
Edited: to add: The fitting punishment for EAxis/Sony for doing this to unsuspecting people would be to force them to install SecuRom onto ALL the company computers and to have to work with it for at least 5 years. How much are people willing to bet that this malicious software is installed nowhere on either company's important network and development computers.
squish:
Fuck this shit!
My PC has been playing up lately (before I got BV) and I decided to re-format this morning. Well gee, thanks SecuROM for fucking up my CD/DVD drive, because once Windows tries loading to finish off I get "no CD in the drive" errors. So yay for not being able to even fucking RE-FORMAT. My boyfriend's thinking that SecuROM has messed with the drive's firmware and will be trying to fix it for me later.
I don't think I'll be re-installing BV once I get my PC running again, that's for sure. >:(
Insanity Prelude:
I hadn't planned to get BV anyway, but now I'm <i>definitely</i> not going to. Great job, EAxis. ::)
Edit: Shit. Can't avoid it anyway: according to Wikipedia (if it's right), Neverwinter Nights 2 has a version of SecuROM on it. :/ Which means that this computer (our main internet computer) and my laptop are "infected".
However, I haven't seen any of the problems you guys have mentioned so far... We removed NWN2 from this computer anyway, so are there any ways to remove SecuROM <i>without</i> reformatting? x_X
pixiejuice:
It was also apparently shipped with H&M Stuff, which I bought in June. It seems a bit fishy though that the SecuROM folder I found was created September 9th, the day I installed BV. Wouldn't the folder be older than that if it was shipped with H&M? ???
jsalemi:
Quote from: darcee on 2007 October 07, 03:05:43
Wouldn't the folder be older than that if it was shipped with H&M? ???
Not necessarily -- if you had Seasons before you installed H&M, then you still ran off the Seasons executable, so the H&M one was never used. Thus it never installed the SecuROM stuff.
I just installed BV on my laptop, and I never ran the launcher or original .exe -- I went right to the no-cd .exe. No sign of SecuROM anywhere on the system.
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