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Originally Posted by Dante288
He's right you know, just wait until it overides your abilities as administrator, destroys all your software, hardware, and then you will try to uninstall it with spore, and you will realize it can't be uninstalled without some sort of third party installer
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Okay seriously, dude, you've completely misread what's going on here. You're making out like SecuROM will wipe all your software and introduce hardware faults to your computer, and that it'll stop you doing everything ever as administrator.
Now whilst i'm not advocating SecuROM, it is a rather silly piece of software to say the least, I thought i'd at least point out that the effects that you're saying here and she's talking about are nowhere NEAR as extreme as you're making them out to be.
1: SecuROM basically disables the administrators powers to try and remove itself, as if you could just go and delete it straight away, it wouldn't be much of a "piracy defence". Obviously it doesn't work as there are 3rd party uninstallers anyway.
2: There's no record of SecuROM interfering with Hard Drive operation. At all. SecuROM is known to prevent people making copies of games by disabling CD/DVD burners, and at times it can funk up unexpectedly but this is hardly a permanent hardware fault!
3: SecuROM has been known to interfere with AV programs and some game launching, but this isn't a 100% thing. It's also been known in some cases to cause severe damage to windows, but again, not 100% Admitted it'd be better if it wasn't there at all but installing SecuROM is not guaranteed to screw up all your software.
So basically, what i'm saying here is the following:
SecuROM, yes, it's bad. Yes, i'd rather not have it on my computer, but people seem to be blowing it's effects WAY out of proportion!
And with that, I move on. Oh plus I run linux, so I just have windows around for gaming. Can't get mah private data if there ain't none to get
(Speaking of which, just to point out one last thing, of course there could be a chance to abuse SecuROM, it's a rootkit! It's the type of thing which hackers have been using for years!)