Removing Securom ?

[Guest Stuart Crow]

Hello all

I have recentrly tried the game Bioshock and since it has problems

running on my pc I then uninstalled it.

Unfortunately it has left Securom on my pc, which I want to get rid

of. I contacted Securom and they gave me the link to a program which

they said would remove Securom except the drm data. ( I downloaded

this program and when I tried to run it I was informed by my antivirus

(AVG Free) :

Threat Detected

While opening file C:\SecuROM_Uninstaller.exe

Trojan horse SHeur.AUGX

I contacted Securom and informed them of this and their reply was

This is a false positive detection. We will contact AVG regarding this

issue. The program was deleted by AVG)

 

I of course complained and told them that the drm data had been

installed on my pc without my knowledge and permission and I wanted it

removed. All the reply I received was :

The registry entry is needed to save the digital

rights information. If a demo software is protected by SecuROM then it

should only work for, as an example, 30 days. The necessary license is

stored in the registry. Therefore, please understand that it is not

possible to delete such a entry.

 

This is just not good enough !

 

I searched google groups for advice on how to remove Securom and found

advice to uninstall the program, delete Securom references from the

registry, Rename ...\Application Data\SecuROM to ...\Application

Data\xxSecuROM and then use a program called DelInvFile to remove the

....\Application Data\xxSecuROM\UserData folder then remove xxxSecuROM

in the usual way.

 

Running Regedit to remove the Securom entries led to a key

HKET_CURRENT_USER\Software\SecuROM which has a subkey

!CAUTION! NEVER DELETE OR CHANGE ANY KEY

which I am unable to delete, despite logging on as an administrator.

 

Can anyone help me to get rid of this Securom ?

TIA

Stuart

 

 

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