How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW

[Moon]

You'll have to indulge my current ignorance as it has been a LONG time since I have been able to play TS2.

If I remember correctly, the game played from the last game installed, not necessarily from the newest EP.

So, could I install all my new stuff, and install say, Nightlife last.. could I still play from the disc and avoid suckurom?

Or do I remember incorrectly, and would I still have to get a No CD for Apartment Life?

I ask simply because No CD cracks would be new territory for me and I'm a big chicken. Bawk bawk.

ETA: I am clearly a moron and of course that is not the case. Now I get to wade into the world of No CD cracks for the first time.

[Lorelei]

The game looks for the most recent EP, so installing them out of order won't make the last installed EP the default EP, it will just bork the proper loading of the EPs and SPs and the functionality of the game. It shouldn't, but sometimes EA Games do things they shouldn't.

In short, get the No-CD for AL.

[PlayLives]

Don't have Securom (I don't think, running Admin account, don't see anything) and no FreeTime patches installed but now about to install ApartmentLife, so I'm confused about order...

Option 1:  Check/Remove Securom; install FT patches 1, 2 and/or 3 (?) ; install AL ; remove securom again(?) ; run from no crack CD
or
Option 2: Install FT patches 1, 2 and/or 3 (?) ; install AL ; check/remove securom(?) ; run from no crack CD


Option 1 seems like unnecessary work but I want to make sure my computer is/stays clean.

[mildlydisguised]

If you have already checked and do not have Securom on your machine, then unless you run the original .exe from any EP after BV then you will not reinfect your machine.  Therefore I would go with option 2, you can always check for Securom after you put the AL crack in, if you are paranoid.

[moparopie]

Love this guide!  It helped me fix my "can't find cd" error the game was throwing.

[witch]

Love this guide!  It helped me fix my "can't find cd" error the game was throwing.

Well fancy that!

[jolrei]

It has been noted that, if you install your game on an administrator account, you may not get the registry entries or the securom directory on your system.  YMMV.

If you run the tests and no registry entries for securom are found, rejoice.  Have a nice cup of tea (to borrow a currently common sentiment).

Load the proper no-cd crack.  You should be good to go.

[Hellyes]

how about an uninstaller guys? i managed to get them to give it to me. had to twist a few arms though. but here it is":

(supposedly this came from Securom personnel)..

" Hello.

Please start the SecuROM Uninstaller tool with the parameter /fulluninstall, afterwards everything should be removed.

Please find below the instructions:

Code:

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

Please download it, extract the application file and follow the instructions below:

WARNING:
Hey everyone, I just want to warn you all.  Don't download this file from Tigerlover!  An AVG Scan says it contains a trojan.  Trojan horse SHeur.CILH

Only question I have is, why is the SecuROM support website giving out a link for a file that has a trojan horse in it?

[Diala]

WARNING:
Hey everyone, I just want to warn you all.  Don't download this file from Tigerlover!  An AVG Scan says it contains a trojan.  Trojan horse SHeur.CILH

Only question I have is, why is the SecuROM support website giving out a link for a file that has a trojan horse in it?

According to some of the results of the Google search of SHeur (a direct search of SHeur.CILH didn't turn up anything), it could very well be a false positive. However, there is also this brief report on Microsoft's Malware Proection Center. Hmm.

[Bronxboy]

Hello all, first time posting, as I too have been having issues with the game & my pc in general after installing AL and I would like to remove SecuRom and use the No-CD crack.

I will be attempting to remove SecuRom tonight via the instructions here, but I just have one question: I see a few people mention the No-CD patch for AL, and I'm not quite sure what thats means, as all I found on GameCopyWorld was a No-CD crack. Is this a hacked version of the official patch that will eventually be out for AL? I'm new to all this stuff, so please forgive my noobishness.

[jsalemi]

The no-cd crack is what you want -- it replaces the game .exe.  Save your original .exe somewhere (I just zip it up and leave it in the same folder), because you'll need to restore it when the patch comes out so the patch can be applied.  You'll need to get a new no-cd.exe for the patched version, though, so don't be in a rush to patch until the revised .exe is available.

[Bronxboy]

Okay, so I've managed to delete SecuRom (I think I did it right! lol. No errors!) and apply the No-CD crack, because the game loaded with it. Go me!

Thanks for explaining about the patch and the updated NO-CD crack, I will be patient until I see the new version - whenever that is! However, one quick question: Should I not keep the original EXE just out in the open in the same folder as the NO-CD one? I renamed the crack and the game loaded up fine, with the original EXE in the same folder.

[kutto]

Where is your shortcut pointing to, out of curiosity? Just having a crack does not mean you are running it.

[jolrei]

Okay, so I've managed to delete SecuRom (I think I did it right! lol. No errors!) and apply the No-CD crack, because the game loaded with it. Go me!

Thanks for explaining about the patch and the updated NO-CD crack, I will be patient until I see the new version - whenever that is! However, one quick question: Should I not keep the original EXE just out in the open in the same folder as the NO-CD one? I renamed the crack and the game loaded up fine, with the original EXE in the same folder.

Yes, you can keep the original .exe in the folder.  My question now is, if you renamed the no-cd.exe the same name as the original, did it not overwrite the original?  Or did you rename the original something else first?

I generally name the no-cd crack something like ALno-cd.exe, and point the shortcut to it, leaving the original .exe intact.  That way I don't have to rename things again when I want to install a new EP.

[Bronxboy]

Yes, I left the original .EXE with the original name, and named the crack ALNOCD.exe actually!

I didn't rename the original .EXE in case the crack wouldn't work and I would need to use the original method. Thankfully though, its all working. I have the CD away in its case and the game running all by itself.

[butheircousins]

i heard that simrom causes problems with lots of peoples computers but my computers have never had problems with it i am going to live simron on for now but if there are problems i will take it off

[Milhouse Trixibelle Saltfucker III]

By the gods, are you retarded? Seriously. Who could possibly be this stupid? Probably a sock; my money is on The Tard's sock, sent to make her seem wonderful in comparison, so that her return would be made better for her.

[witch]

simrom - the new STD. Snork.

[Zazazu]

By the gods, are you retarded? Seriously. Who could possibly be this stupid? Probably a sock; my money is on The Tard's sock, sent to make her seem wonderful in comparison, so that her return would be made better for her.

Interesting thought.

[Triskele]

Thank you for giving me an option in regards to killing this little bastard of a program.
My laptop is getting renamed in honour of its saviour. I think I've lost a third of the functionality since this got itself nestled in my registry.
I'll refrain from cursing in text though.
I hope they win the lawsuit.

[seelindarun]

I realise this is a long thread, but Zazazu answered this question already.  Please search.

[J. M. Pescado]

I uninstalled SecuRom successfully... or so I'm hoping.  I'm not even really sure how it got on my computer, but that's not the issue at hand here.  However, if anyone knows if SecuRom was included in the free Spore Creature Creator demo, let me know, as that would be incredibly stupid to put an anti-piracy program on a demo...

It was. Copy protection is placed on demos because of the belief that crackers will use the demo as a "known plaintext" to attack from. What it REALLY accomplishes is simply giving them something to examine before the game even comes out.

[Triskele]

Anyone have any idea about my other question?

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2/704675

Does this help?

[Zazazu]

Anyone have any idea about my other question?

It sounds like you skipped Step 3:

3. If that damned SecuRom folder still can't be deleted, even after correctly following the instructions above, download DelinvFile from http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/dldelinv.htm . Run the executable and find the C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME HERE\Application Data\Securom folder and open the sub-folder. (Sorry, mine's gone, but I believe it was named "User Data"). On the right, choose each malformed file and delete. Go back into My Computer and delete that SecuRom folder for once and all.

[vecki]

I finally got around to downloading the no-cd crack for Apartment Life and removing SecuROM from my computer.  I hadn't had any problems with SecuROM that I knew about, which is why I took so long to get around to it, but just knowing it was there was starting to grate on me.

This was not fun given that the instructions were for PCs with XP, and Vista does stuff differently because it wants to wrap you in cotton wool and tell you that you're not smart enough to do this.  So I spent a lot of time googling how to do stuff under Vista which would have been simple under XP (well, simple following the instructions, anyway).

I think I'll have to run CCleaner at some point because when I next rebooted the computer, there was some sort of error in the startup files (not sure what - I didn't pay enough attention, and it didn't seem to cause any problems in the stuff that I used).  If it comes up again I'll take a screenshot.

ETA: Bloody computer made a liar out of me.  No error on startup this time.  Hmph.

ETA (Again): just checked out my registry files.  Securom found its nasty way back in there despite using the no-cd crack.  The computer was happy to let me delete the folder though so I don't know if I did it WRONG or if this is meant to happen?