How to remove SecuRom Virus?

[Reece]

Hi I recently installed a game "BlackSite" that had SecuRom protection, all I get is a black screen after the ad screens so I uninstalled it, damn thing takes up 11gig HDD space! Anyway now I can't remove SecuRom from the register:

Damned virus, can anyone tell me how to delete this key please?

[HunterICX]

Hi Reece,

give this a go (found this on a other Forum about how to remove Securom from your registry)

1. get this registry cleaner...

http://www.shura.totalcmd.net/download/trashreg.zip

2. install or run it

3. click FILE , then click on FIND KEYS WITH NULL - EMBEDDED NAMES

4. it'll show you the SECUROM - CANNOT DELETE ME key

5. just delete the key

6. DONE!

I'm surprised that securom is allowed to dig itself into the registry not removing itself after unninstalling Securom itself. Weirder yet, I've heard they infested Demo's with securom too...

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

Well, can it be any worse than Starforce?

[FIREWALL]

With this economy let them shoot themselves in the foot.:p

In the past month I've bought enough games from ebay and half price.com to mod and last me a lifetime.

So screw'em.

[Reece]

Thanks HunterICX, I have registry cleaner but last time I ran it my system died, lucky I had a ghost image to restore, I'll give this version a go!
Thanks.

In a related note:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10050717-52.html

EA hit with class action suit over 'Spore'
and this is over their use of SecuROM

Personally, I'd love it if AVG classified it as "Malware" officially.

[SS107.9MHz]

Originally Posted by Zayphod

In a related note:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10050717-52.html

EA hit with class action suit over 'Spore'
and this is over their use of SecuROM

Personally, I'd love it if AVG classified it as "Malware" officially.

Serves them right, what the hell were they thinking, this is only going to put of people who would glady buy the game and will rippit now for free... Dumbasses... In a time where music industry manily indie bands and record companies start getting that free music is good for business and there's a major piece of the cake to get via publicity and series soundtracks, etc, EA wich is a major player just does the exact opposite... It was like the copycontrol cds, never worked and just added more costs in producing and on final resale price...

[FIREWALL]

I'd like to add... While I don't condone " Borrowing" games I didn't pay for , EA and others need to disclose to customers it's setup and no secrets.

In the end it hurts them as much as us.

[Task Force]

Dosent the box have that Info about this stuff on it?:hmm:

[JHuschke]

I doubt it, but most games don't even use SecuROM..is what others beside EA use this?

[kurtz]

Originally Posted by Zayphod

In a related note:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10050717-52.html

EA hit with class action suit over 'Spore'
and this is over their use of SecuROM

Personally, I'd love it if AVG classified it as "Malware" officially.

Check the Amamzon reviews for Spore here

[Wolfehunter]

Thanks hunter I forget where I once downloaded it a while back and accidentally removed it.



here I found this,

http://reclaimyourgame.com/index.php...d=68&Itemid=40

Here's an article on Rootkit removal,

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ref...it_removal.pdf

http://www.antirootkit.com/software/...oval-tools.htm

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Reece

Thanks HunterICX, I have registry cleaner but last time I ran it my system died, lucky I had a ghost image to restore, I'll give this version a go!
Thanks.

I guess you did give 'system recovery' a try?

[Reece]

Well I fixed it, thanks to all. I gave up on BlackSite, there are many games with bugs, but that's by far the worse ever! What a waste of a whole day!

[SUBMAN1]

The easy way:

To remove all SecuROM™ related files please follow the instructions below. Before you start the uninstallation, close all programs which are running in the background.


The link below contains a tool which removes SecuROM:

http://www.securom.com/support/SecuROM_Uninstaller.zip

Please follow these steps:

• Download the ZIP file
• Extract the application into a temporary folder
• Launch the application and follow the instructions.
  A dialog box will appear. To start the SecuROM uninstallation, press the <Yes> button.
  Note that you need administrator rights to run this uninstallation utility.

This uninstallation process will not remove the SecuROM DRM license information. Removing the license information would result in a lost activation. This uninstall process allows you to remove SecuROM-related files without losing a purchased software activation.

To get rid of the corrupted reg entries however, you either need to use software as described above, or load the hive offline.

The reason the entries are corrupted and hard to remove is it contains information (key info) on how long you have had an application on your machine for example, or anything else having to do with a particular app. An example is an app says you can run it only for 30 days as a fully working demo. If you removed those keys from your registry, all a sudden you can run that same app again for 30 more days. This is why they make it hard to remove - they don't want you doing that.

-S