How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
Cappuccino:
^ You can search for it yourself at gamecopyworld.com and stop bugging people here. If it *had* been released, be sure that there'd be people mentioning it here. To realise that though means that you'd have to read some posts too instead of just barging in and asking "oh, where's my no-cd crack?".
Short answer: there isn't one yet.
Lord Darcy:
Quote from: psikfreak on 2008 June 29, 20:20:31
I downloaded bittorrent. with bittorrent i was able to download a program called the crack machine. it makes cracks for the patched version of bon voyage and free time that are not infested with Suck-U-Rom. i got the crack machine from http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4085797/Crack_Machine_BETA_v1.0_%5BFreeTime___Bon_Voyage%5D_SpyXenoX
The crack machine is very simple, download, go to the directory it was installed in. double-click on CrackMachine.exe. Select the EP you need cracked. Click the button.
Excuse me? A "Crack Machine" for the Sims? That sounds EXTREMELY dodgy to me. I would not touch it with a ten-foot barge pole. If it was that easy to produce new cracks out of thin air with a simple program, why talented crackers have not yet produced a NoCD for FreeTime second patch yet?
I bet this so-called "Crack Machine" is nothing more than just an auto-installer of existing cracks that were made by Scene release groups. People who are dumb enough not to be able to extract a NoCD from .rar would fall for it for sure. I would never trust some lame auto-installer to mess with my game setup. Most likely, this "Crack Machine" will produce Unholy Hybrid when used upon patched FreeTime, as there is no reliable NoCD for FreeTime second patch yet.
Quote from: psikfreak on 2008 June 29, 20:20:31
I was very weary of no-cd cracks because one awsome person posted that they can be infested with rootkits.
Excuse me again, rootkits in NoCDs? If that person spouted about such nonsense, then clearly he/she was not awesome. If you stick to reliable sources like GameCopyWorld for NoCDs, you'll not get rootkits or other virus/malware. The Scene groups are serious in their competition to produce proper cracks first. If one group was dumb enough to retain rootkit in their NoCD, they'll be immediately gunned down by other groups.
Quote from: psikfreak on 2008 June 29, 20:20:31
I was weary of downloading a no-cd crack from a sight because I did not know a safe site to do so from and did not want to trade my Suck-U-Rom problems for rootkits. That is why I personally opted to use the Crack Machine method. My awsome friend Dani did this to get a no-cd crack. No Suck-U-Rom, no rootkits on her computer.
Seriously, get your fill of NoCDs from GameCopyWorld, instead of resorting to some lame dodgy auto-installer made by some nobody. You're much safer this way.
unregister:
After Bon Voyage and being contaminated with SecuRom, I went through all the steps, cleaned SecuRom completely out, used the no-cd, and my internet use returned to normal.
The unbought Free Time and Castaways are both used with no-cd's. Even so, I had ran 'CureSecuROM', checked my registry keys, searched my file folders, just to be sure that no part of SecuRom got into my computer. All came up clean.
Early to mid last month, I began having real problems with the internet again. It reminded me of what had happened before with SecuRom. But hey, my pc was clean so that couldn't be the problem. I was so wrong.
While trying to solve the internet problems, I came across the "Shell Extensions Manager" and ran it. There was SecuRom. It was called "SecuRom Context Menu for Explorer" version 1,1,222,0 in "C: Documents\Locals 1\temp\cmdLine", a 'cmdLine Context Menu Class. Made by the 'friends" in Austria.
The strangest thing is that it is dated 5/2/08. This is a date after Castaways install/use and before Free Time. The only thing that I can remember around this date is after doing a defrag, the no-cd went AWOL and I had to get a new one. Maybe it was a bad no-cd to begin with. Glad to say that the internet use is back to normal. I am just puzzled as to how this type of SecuROm got in.
BastDawn:
Did you install any other games or demos? SecuRom isn't just for the Sims.
unregister:
No, only pc games I have is Sim games, no demos, nothing new since Castaways and Free Time.
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