How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
morriganrant:
It sounds a bit much for it to be Securom related, you said you removed signed of securom? If you did and they are still gone it is certainly not the problem. Have you run any programs like Adaware lately? Have you turned off things in your processes that are un-needed? Checked your fire wall logs for things that aren't supposed to be trying to connect?
Zazazu:
I'd recommend the next step and going to someplace like http://www.geekstogo.com/. In their forums, they provide great support for removing tricky malware. They helped me with Vundo ages ago, as well as to track down a weird error I was getting a few months ago due to a faulty patch automatically applied to a program I don't even use. Your issues don't sound at all like SecuROM.
morriganrant:
It's possible that you have securom too, as your inability to burn cds and your drive being unrecognizable do indeed sound like it.
Does the burner show up in My computer? Or whatever it's equivalent is for whatever OS you are using. Have you restarted your PC and gone into the BIOS to ensure that it is enabled there?
For future installs, the database here is useful to check, for Securom or the ever evil Starforce, before you install.
VioletKitty:
Hi, thank you so much for this post.
Back in October, SecuROM immobilized my machine. It would read only selected DVDs and CDs (the DVDrw was 6 months old at the time). Just a bit of background, I didn't realize that "Insert the correct CD" was a SecuROM thing at the time. I thought, into every simmer's life an uninstall/reinstall must fall. I don't complain about those, I just do it now and then. When my game starts running slowly, I've found that cleans it up. That was the worst idea ever, because I could reinstall the base game, but none of the EPs and this meant I couldn't do much about it working with EA (grrrr)... I ran a CureSecuROM file, and still nothing.
I tried everything I could think of and finally replaced my harddrive (it was something I was considering doing before the crap started anyway, so no big deal). Well, it appears that SecuROM actually physically affected the DVDrw as the same CDs it would read before it read and likewise the ones it wouldn't it didn't read. So I replaced my non-functioning DVDr that I had (yes, I had a DVDrw and a DVDr) with a new one. My DVDr was 5 years old and needing replacing. I do not blame SecuROM for that, but I do blame it for the DVDrw failure. I installed up to Seasons like a dream!
Lilke a Good Simmer, I saved all my games before installing BV and I had saved them on an external drive before the hard-drive replacement, so I'm back to where I was before all this started. I'm a mostly happy Simmer. I am ready to install BV (and other SecuROM infested software) but before I do I have a couple questions:
1) Will I need to add this cure (I've downloaded the newest link) to the TSBin of all the SPs that are infested or will just the TSBin of BV be enough?
2) Similarly, should I rename all the exe's of the SPs to bak's?
3) Can I add this to my Seasons TSBin and rename it to bak before installing BV so it's erradicated from the beginning?
4) I'm awaiting FreeTime, will this be addressed for that as well?
Final note, I know you can't answer this but commiserate with me...what the heck was EA thinking?!?!?!
VK :-)
morriganrant:
Violetkitty, I think you may be reading too far into what needs to be done in order to keep securom at bay in the first place. If it is not on your pc already it is as simple as using a no-cd crack.
Install your ep on an admin account only. Rename the exe in your latest EP's Tsbin folder. Drop in a no-cd crack. You do not need one in any other then the ep that you run from. When you install FT the process will be the same.
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