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November 9, 2008
Removing Spore DRM
I've seen enough articles on Slashdot about Spore's DRM that I finally decided to uninstall it and get their crappy DRM off of my PC. I followed an article on Tom's Hardware called Securom uninstallation instructions for Windows XP SP2.
I'm not 100% sure what flavor of Securom I had. I think it claimed to be version 7.01. But all of the stuff in the article worked, except for the "uaservice7 /remove" command. That one didn't do anything for me.
After I got through that document, I turned on System Restore on all of my drives, created a System Restore Point, and backed up my Registry. (Better late than never.)
Then, I ran a generic scan of my Registry for embedded Nulls using my new little RegDelNull utility:
regdelnull hklm -s
It found a lot of occurrences from InProcServer32. I let it delete them. Who knows what they are. I Googled it, but I never could really figure out whether they were malicious or not.
I should probably go ahead and run Rootkit Revealer.
Rootkit Revealer 1.71 found the following:
HKLM\Security\Policy\Secrets\SAC*
HKLM\Security\Policy\Secrets\SAI*
But these are known false positives.
Posted by Rob Kiser on November 9, 2008 at 11:22 PM
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