How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
lordrichter:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 October 16, 15:49:18
Conspiracy!!!!!
Considering that I personally had issues with McAfee saying my sub was up, and others have had issues with Norton Antivirus doing the same or stalling/erroring during scans
My mistake. The OP said "firewall" not "anti-virus". Anti-virus software is not firewall software, even if they are bundled together. It is not unusual for there to be conflicts with AV software, unfortunately.
SecuROM, as installed by Sims 2 patch 1 on my sandbox PC, does not interfere with my firewall and does not bypass the firewall to access the network. It also does not phone home, as measured by the log on my separate LAN monitoring platform.
I don't use Norton Internet Security because I don't trust the Norton firewall software.
I don't work for EA or Sony or any company related to SecuROM or Sims 2, either.
Jelenedra:
I don't use Norton because it's a resource hog. I don't like to share my playing area with pigs.
I use PCillian.
lemonfresh:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 October 16, 15:49:18
Quote from: lordrichter on 2007 October 16, 11:35:57
Quote from: Celesta on 2007 October 15, 15:52:26
The main reason I say SecuROM is malicious is the fact that it shuts off firewalls without our knowledge. This leaves machines vulnerable to malware.
In my experience, this is not fact, at least with respect to the way that Sims 2 is using SecuROM.
I have directly investigated this claim with no success in verifying it. Although, I am an IT professional, so I might be part of the compiracy.
Conspiracy!!!!!
Considering that I personally had issues with McAfee saying my sub was up, and others have had issues with Norton Antivirus doing the same or stalling/erroring during scans, it's not a huge leap that some firewalls might be seen as The Evil by SecuROM. The thing displays no logic whatsoever. I've seen several people here and on the BBS post that their firewall was turned off or had increased events. Too many to be coincidence.
I also had an obscene amount of blocked events (I'm at tight security level), but more suspect a coincidence in my case. I don't see how the two could be linked. And yes, since SecuROM was removed I've had no--count 'em--no events, but I also banned a whole bunch of EPs at the same time. Can't be sure.
Add me to the list of people who've had their AV software and firewall screwed up because of SecuRom. I just spent the last couple of hours attempting to repair the damage and eventually just doing a complete remove/re-install. I know for a fact that it was SecuRom that did it because I've not installed anything since BV. And both were working perfectly prior to BV. Thankfully I haven't installed anything since BV, as I've had my AV and firewall turned off in an attempt to get BV to actually run! Of course, I removed the garbage as soon as I found out it'd infected my PC, but apparently I was too late to avoid the hassles. I'm so pissed about this SecuRom thing I could spit nails. It'll be a long time before I consider buying any sort of PC game ever again and only after checking that it's not connected with Sony and it's Malware. >:(
jmtmom:
A question from yet another non-awesome person. This is what I get when I run the RegDelNull commands
No options to delete anything, no results in the scan (if I'm reading it right)
Yet in my registry, I see the accursed files:
Any words of advice? I did perhaps screw it up by deleting whatever I could before running the scan, several folders of crap in the SecuRom folder. ???
muridae:
Quote from: jmtmom on 2007 October 16, 20:38:42
A question from yet another non-awesome person. This is what I get when I run the RegDelNull commands (...)
Any words of advice? I did perhaps screw it up by deleting whatever I could before running the scan, several folders of crap in the SecuRom folder. ???
Try running the scans again, but put a space between "hkcu" and the "-s". The "-s" is the instruction that tells regdelnull to do the scan, and "hkcu" (or "hku") is the part of the registry that it's actually scanning. Without the space, it's looking for something that doesn't exist.
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