How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
bowrain:
Quote from: Lord Darcy on 2007 October 19, 18:36:15
The Vitality crack for Pet Stories hosted on GameCopyWorld is the only one available and a reliable one.
Personally, I find GameBurnWorld less reliable than GCW, as GBW don't list the release group name and release date clearly. Looks cleaner though, as they don't put up as many ads as GCW.
Yep, might be the looks that got me... GCW sure looks like a mess :(
angelyne:
Quote from: Soylent Sim on 2007 October 19, 18:32:42
Sugar, if you really want to guinea-pig that method of defanging SecuROM, mightn't it be easiest to delete it the official way here, and then simply create a backup account for simming and other infected games? It'd be a little extra work, but might be the safest way to get it all done.
Unless this backup account is on a different computer, there are no real way of segregating changes so they only affect only one account. So this is not safer in anyway.
Soylent Sim:
I said guinea-pig for a reason. I'm happiest just running BV-less, but if she really wants to try questionable SecuROM controls more power to her. If she finds out something useful it'll be good for the rest of us, and if her computer blows up she might learn to listen to people who know what they're talking about.
Sugar:
I really appreciate how helpful everyone is trying to be. I know that I sound a little paranoid, but I'm an infant when it comes to computer stuff (I know just enough to get me in trouble -- I'm not awesome at all), so I always check everything out several times before I actually make a decision. That caution has paid off many times. I just wish I had been that cautious when I decided to install BV. :'(
The "turn off" method is appealing to me because it has been possible to turn off things in the services menu for quite a while, so I feel that this method is tried and true. It doesn't feel like an experimental attempt at all. My only problem is that I don't have the .exe file needed to turn the program off and I need to figure out how to do it with the files I have. I guess that could be considered the experimental part. :-\
I know that many people have deleted the keys from their registry and installed the no-cd crack without problems. However, I have read some posts where this HAS caused problems for people. Since I have the "unholy hybrid" (the game plus the patch), I worry that I will be one of those at risk. And, as I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm not allowed to reformat my computer, so I need to make sure that whatever I do doesn't cause a disasterous problem.
People here have been telling everyone to read up on the SecuROM issue because the net is full of information about it. Well, I have been reading and something that gave me pause about using the regular removal method discussed here is something I read over at wrongplanet.net. The poster worked in security. He doesn't like SecuROM, but warns people about cracks in general: "I let my cert expire a while ago, so I won't recommend against buying one copy and downloading another. Just go over your downloaded one with 3 or 4 different AV/anti-trojan scanners before you use it, because half of the cracked stuff I've seen has had non-Sony rootkits in it, and those are even less fun than SecuRom. Stuff in RAR format seems to be especially bad, since few AV packages know how to see through the compression like they do with ZIPs, etc."
As I mentioned earlier, If possible, I would like to try the least harmful method first, and then move on to methods that might be more likely to hurt my computer. But no matter what, I do want to get SecuROM off my computer. If for no other reason, I need to see if that is what is causing the problems I've been having.
So, although I know that many of you want to just tell me to shut up and use the delete/crack method, I would really appreciate it if anyone that might have the knowledge to help me with the "turn off" method would speak up and let me know their thoughts. Thanks again to everyone.
sluggo:
Quote from: Sugar on 2007 October 20, 12:24:18
..., I would really appreciate it if anyone that might have the knowledge to help me with the "turn off" method would speak up and let me know their thoughts. Thanks again to everyone.
The problem is, it's not the .exe that causes the problems, but the actual registry entries. "Turning off" the .exe will only disallow it to do more harm, If you're not presently having problems and are too unsure about deleting the registry entries, and are using the NOCD, go ahead and take a leap of faith (I would still go ahead and disable the cmdlineext.exe file). If you're planning on "turning off" and expecting to go ahead and use the original TS2-.exe to start the game, I really don't think that would work as people have reported the original TS2-.exe is what allows it to "phone home" and/or re-establish the reg entries. Disabling the cmdlineext.exe file here may throw errors.
Btu then again, I'm totally not awesome, and I'm just talkin' shit here.
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