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>> No. Whatever is wrong with your drive, it's NOT caused by Securom, nor is
>> Securom a
>> root-kit and it doesn't damage the computer, it's really quite harmless
>> and it's easy to
>> remove (which a root-kit is not).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>Even though my drive failure may have been consequencial after all, it still
>doesn't rule out why the SecuROM folder on my PC won't delete and throws up
>a garbled error message. I've still got traces of SecuROM that I apparently,
>as Administrator do NOT have permission to remove!
>
>Any software that installs additional software giving itself administrator
>privileges without my knowledge and permission is a rootkit as far as I'm
>concerned and SecuROM is no exception.

All Right. To you then, lots of programs are rootkits as many of them will behave like
that if you try to remove them the wrong way. There isn't really any need to remove
folders just to remove Securom, the uninstallation will do that automatically.

If something went wrong with your installation of the game so that the uninstallation
doesn't work, then it may be necessary to remove it manually but a successful
reinstallation of the game should fix the uninstallation also.

I've installed and reinstalled the Securom expansions on many computers without any
problems with uninstalling. There is no Securom folders, services or registry entries left
over.

"Strider" wrote in message
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>
>>> No. Whatever is wrong with your drive, it's NOT caused by Securom, nor
>>> is
>>> Securom a
>>> root-kit and it doesn't damage the computer, it's really quite harmless
>>> and it's easy to
>>> remove (which a root-kit is not).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Even though my drive failure may have been consequencial after all, it
>>still
>>doesn't rule out why the SecuROM folder on my PC won't delete and throws
>>up
>>a garbled error message. I've still got traces of SecuROM that I
>>apparently,
>>as Administrator do NOT have permission to remove!
>>
>>Any software that installs additional software giving itself administrator
>>privileges without my knowledge and permission is a rootkit as far as I'm
>>concerned and SecuROM is no exception.
>
> All Right. To you then, lots of programs are rootkits as many of them will
> behave like
> that if you try to remove them the wrong way. There isn't really any need
> to remove
> folders just to remove Securom, the uninstallation will do that
> automatically.
>
> If something went wrong with your installation of the game so that the
> uninstallation
> doesn't work, then it may be necessary to remove it manually but a
> successful
> reinstallation of the game should fix the uninstallation also.
>
> I've installed and reinstalled the Securom expansions on many computers
> without any
> problems with uninstalling. There is no Securom folders, services or
> registry entries left
> over.
>
>

I was just wondering if SecuROM is the right word to use for searching. I
did a search on my computer and came up with nothing. Did I do it correctly?


thanks...LS