How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
seelindarun:
I'm too ignorant to help with whether you did it wrong, but maybe it would be a good idea to post what you did in tutorial form, as in the top of this thread? It would make it easier for others who know more to point out where you might have taken a wrong turn. Also, I imagine more people will have to adopt Vista and your findings will be useful for them, if only as an initial draft.
vecki:
Apologies for big long quotes in advance - this is what I had to do differently in the EVIL world of Vista.
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 October 08, 02:14:51
How do I get rid of that nasty, interfering DRM?
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Download regdelnull.exe and place it in C:\
Go to "Run" and type in "cmd", then type the following:
cd C:\
regdelnull hkcu -s
regdelnull hku -s
The two regdelnull calls above will scan the whole of HKEY_CURRENT_USER (abbreviated to HKCU) and HKEY_USERS (abbreviated to HKU). It's possible you may find other null registry keys during the scans, since you're not targeting *just* the SecuROM keys doing it this way. regdelnull will prompt you with the full pathname of every key it finds though, which will contain the name "SecuROM" if it's one of the ones you're after, so you can check names and only respond "y" to delete those two.
This worked normally.
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Follow the guidelines below ripped from http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/98241-13-remove-securom-malware-uninstalling-bioshock-demo:
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* Step 3: Removal of the Securom service and related utilities.
Open a Windows command prompt and change directory to "c:\windows\system32". Type "uaservice7 /remove". This will stop the Securom user access service, and clean up its relevant registry entries. On the Windows command prompt type "regsvr32 /u cmdlineext.dll". Reboot and then manually delete the files "uaservice7.exe" and "cmdlineext.dll" from "c:\windows\system32". Note: Both of these files are Securom installed files which can be verified by checking their file properties (Right click - Properties).
This also worked normally, aside from uaservice7.exe not appearing in the directory. That could simply be a configuration thing (and I've seen it mentioned in thread so I'm not too distressed about it)
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* Step 4: Removal of Securom files under "C:\Documents and Settings".
Securom installs a hidden directory with 6 files under "C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Administrator name>\Application Data\Securom". The first 4 ordinary text files can simply be manually deleted once Windows explorer has been configured to show hidden files and folders. The two remaining malformed nominally unremoveable files require a special method to delete: Invoke a Windows command prompt with full Administrator privileges by typing the following into a Windows command prompt: "at <your current time + 1 minute> /interactive %systemroot%\system32\cmd.exe" e.g. "at 9:02pm /interactive %systemroot%\system32\cmd.exe". This will open a new Administrator command line when the time set has been attained.
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This was a little different. Vista denied access to schedule running cmd as an adminstrator (this is where it protects you from yourself, because obviously, if you can enter the command as above, you're obviously going to do something which will make your computer asplode ::) ). Instead of going into Command prompt and then scheduling it to run as an administrator, click on the 'start' button, if cmd doesn't automatically come up in the list, type cmd in the search box, when it does appear, right click on it and choose 'Run as administrator'.
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In this new command prompt change directory into the Securom folder e.g. "cd C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Administrator name>\Application Data\Securom". Issue the following command to show the two remaining hidden malformed files: "dir /A". To delete the two remaining hidden malformed files issue the following command: "del /F /AH *". Confirm "yes" for each of the two file deletions of the malformed files. Finally, the directory "C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Administrator name>\Application Data\Securom" can be deleted as per normal practice from within Windows explorer.
Instead of typing "del /F /AH *", because that didn't seem to delete the files, I typed "del *.*". When I then ran a dir /a, the files were gone. The Securom folder was then happy to be removed as per the above.
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2. Double check your registry files. Still see any keys under HKEY_CURRENT_USER---Software---Securom? Just delete the suckers. Won't blow up.
Yup.
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3. If that damned SecuRom folder still can't be deleted, even after correctly following the instructions above, download DelinvFile from http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/dldelinv.htm . Run the executable and find the C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME HERE\Application Data\Securom folder and open the sub-folder. (Sorry, mine's gone, but I believe it was named "User Data"). On the right, choose each malformed file and delete. Go back into My Computer and delete that SecuRom folder for once and all.
N/A for me so don't know if there was anything different.
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4. To not get it again, you need to start loading from a no-CD crack. I get mine at gamecopyworld.com. I recommend any versions by Fairlight. Make sure that, if you have patched your game, you get the patched version of the crack. Go to "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 LAST EP\TSBin" and change the name of the crack to whatever you like. Then place the crack in the same folder. Make a shortcut to this on your desktop, and run the game from this new shortcut.
Yup. This worked exactly the same.
Last night after playing off the no-cd, I idly went into Registry and noticed Securom had snuck back into the registry files. However like I mentioned in my previous post it had no qualms about being deleted again, and didn't appear in my Application Data directories (yes, I made sure hidden files and folders were visible), so not sure if there's a problem there or not.
EDIT - Played again last night, Securom didn't find its way back in that time. Vecki's inconsistent computer behaves inconsistently. ::)
gfitz:
I have followed the steps here to remove SR but I have a question and a problem. I found a folder in my Programs called PACE Anti Piracy. Anyone know what that is? I only have Sims stuff installed on this PC. Also in my registry, there is a folder called Brain Drain? Don't know if that is related or not...
Now the problem...the no cd crack will not launch my game. I had downloaded it so I didn't have a CD. I put the crack in the appropriate folder for BV and tried naming it alternately Sims2EP6.exe or Sims2Launcher.exe. The game will not load. Is that because I didn't use a CD to install?
And the no CD crack is a 7z file so I don't even no if renaming it is right or if I need to "unzip" it?
Any help is appreciated. And thanks SO MUCH for this thread.
mitchellcjs:
PACE Anti Piracy is a security program bundled with some new PCs. Could it have come with your computer when you purchased it? I don't know about the Brain Drain. As for .7z files: there is a program called 7zip that you need to "unzip" these file types. 7zip is an excellent program. You can get it here.
gfitz:
Quote from: mitchellcjs on 2008 October 04, 04:43:24
PACE Anti Piracy is a security program bundled with some new PCs. Could it have come with your computer when you purchased it? I don't know about the Brain Drain. As for .7z files: there is a program called 7zip that you need to "unzip" these file types. 7zip is an excellent program. You can get it here.
Ah...thank you for that. I figured 7zip files needed to be unzipped but I downloaded the application and get nothing but a quick flash of a window like a command prompt window. Maybe I did it wrong. Either way, I can't get the no CD crack to work.
But thank you for the info!
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