How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
ScorpioMaurus:
In the thread here :
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=d170b4c761611f7417f3f256e1e36aee&topic=9929.0
They suggest getting your NoCD crack from GameCopyWorld.com but I would recommend GameBurnWorld or Megagames because for the last few months every time I visit Gamecopyworld I get hit with a virus or Drive by download. I thought people should know because it's one of those that installs as a fake AntiVirus such as AntiVirusXP or VirusLab2009 and then gives you warning about your PC having a virus. It takes quite a bit of time to get rid of and this latest one forced a complete reformat because it stopped AVG from being able to download updates and changes something in the search so that when you try to download any new AntiSpy or AntiVirus it will redirect you to porn sites or software sites and not let you see site's like Kaspersky, AVG, or Spybot ETC. I don't even know how to contact GameCopyWorld to find out if they know about it because I can't access the site without being hit. I don't know if it's like Securom where GameCopyWorld is aware and doesn't care because it sponsers their site or it they were hacked and that's what's causing it. Until this last time I was able to remove it by using SmitFraudFix in safe mode but I don't know what happened yesterday morning. I was not able to remove it completely but it seems to be many viruses all in one Bratsk, Renos, SmitFraud, VirusLab2009. So Anyways please be careful people.
Marhis:
Update on the Mac issue; thanks to skygirl22 (nanacake on this forum), apparently SecuROM comes also with Pets EP.
In the end, I deleted those entries in plist, and that seems to not harm anything, since I didn't experienced any malfunctioning so far, but I of course don't know if that was enough to get rid of SecuROM - they're DATA entries, i.e. contains binary data, but really don't know.
More interesting informations and tips in this thread on MTS2 (thanks again nanacake).
pbox:
A .plist is just a preference (settings) .. that is why I'm so unsure (on the mts2 thread) if SecuRom is being installed at all with Pets/OSX. I wasn't able to find any other evidence than this one plist entry, which doesn't mean there is nothing, but: when the Spore install of Securom is plainly visible for everyone, is it reasonable to assume that it would be *this* undercover with Pets? Invisible in the logs, in the Finder, in Search, in ActivityMonitor?
It is *still* strange, and annoying, that a game install is fumbling with my global settings. This is *my* machine, for fuck's sake.
Mootilda:
Quote from: pbox on 2008 November 20, 14:57:17
It is *still* strange, and annoying, that a game install is fumbling with my global settings. This is *my* machine, for fuck's sake.
Unfortunately, EA and Sony believe that it is *their* machine, to do with as they wish. They have more lobbyists than you do, so they might even convince some governments to make it law: if you install TS2 or Spore or TS3, the machine is theirs!
Of course, this is one of the reasons that many of us are so angry at EA. Angry enough that some people are actually hoping that EA will fail (ie, go bankrupt; stop making games).
pbox:
I believe sooner or later they'll shoot themselves in the foot in the same way the music industry has =/ not sure whether that's a good thing or not.
Apart from that: you don't know OSX, Mootilda, do you? I don't really know whether or not it is possible for a process to run without showing up in Activity Monitor .. I'd be happy for a competent opinion on that.
ETA: I just had the genius idea to simply email Aspyr and ask what kind of business they have in my global prefs .. but, er, WTF? "Support" = a phone number in the US? And a PO box ::)
Cute.
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