How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
Zazazu:
Quote from: mamainred on 2007 December 12, 22:35:26
As for the OP about Skye, she may be young at heart, but she is a grandmother, not a child. She came here as many of us do to see if someone more awesome than ourself has answers. Often
we do not need to ask the question, the answers are already here. She has been trying hard to get answers on the BBS. Those willing to help, do not have answers for her.
Or they can't without getting banned. If you've been around the BBS (sounds like you have) you've seen that in spades.
I wasn't talking to Skye, by the way. She seems just fine. I was talking to imasimming, who appeared to want someone to step him/her through it in person, and was using quite a few leet-ish mannerisms that lead me to believe they are very young and perhaps not taking the time to read things over and understand. We all have different backgrounds, and some things don't come as easily as others, but that one doesn't seem to get it or be empowered.
I can't answer personally as to what the removal tool does. I don't have the EA version of SecuROM (I have NWN2's and no way to play the patched version with a crack, but NWN2's seems to get along just fine with my system) and am not going to purposefully infect myself again to test it. I've just heard here and at PMBD that it hasn't removed registry keys. If it removed yours - great! Suffice it to say, though, that I'm far past the point where I had any trust in EAxis. They either are stumbling about in the dark and truly don't know what they contracted into (idiots) or they are deliberately misleading their fans in an attempt to make themselves look trustworthy (backfired).
vcline:
Sorry to be clueless, but even if you use the Maxis tool to remove SecureRom, won't it just install itself the next time you play using the CD? I haven't been to the EA site, but are they recommending you use a no-CD crack?
morriganrant:
Quote from: vcline on 2007 December 14, 00:41:56
Sorry to be clueless, but even if you use the Maxis tool to remove SecureRom, won't it just install itself the next time you play using the CD? I haven't been to the EA site, but are they recommending you use a no-CD crack?
Yes it will install next time you use the cd. EA is recommending that you use nothing at all and keep your SecuRom infected computer the way it is, or use the removal tool and get rid of your eps that have securom.
Celestard:
As for the removal tool from EAxis people seem to be getting mixed results. I experimented and it worked fine for me. I think you have to use it in a certain way for it to be effective. You have to have the protected game installed, have the game disk in the drive when you run the tool. Of course this is not going to help people who's drives aren't working. Where people seem to be having complications is when they've uninstalled the game and left SecuROM on the computer. It won't work unless the game is installed, of course, but also it appears when they reinstall the game, they must still start up the game first to reactivate SecuROM (which is risky to their computer), and then use the removal tool. The risk to reactivating it is they could risk having problems with their drive not recognising the disk, and then they've got SecuROM reactivated and no way remove it again.
kutto:
Yes, malware, spyware, et cetera. It mainly fucks with CD/DVD drives, anti-virus programs, and emulation software, but I wouldn't be surprised if it messed with the internet. The biggest problem, however, is the fact that EA wants to put something on your computer without telling you.
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