Continued on Duffs post

yep I know, reason for my bashing these companies.

I find it funny how they can be allowed to install things in the background without the user even knowing, take SecuROM for example. According to the readme.rtf of snowblind, SecuROM will create a file called securom7_00.dat, but nowhere does it say that UAService7.exe will be running, nor even running when the game is not running either. After a reboot the program continues to run. To remove, of course you need to stop the service and terminate the process, delete the exe and remove the registry entry, if you simply remove the reg entry, it will place itself back in the registry...

These type of low level system drivers that install without the user having a choice should be just as illegal as pirate software. Where will this go in the future? Complete lockdown of a users system? Or even destruction of a users windows install on the even a emulation or "fix" is detected? (given the fix went wrong of couse) or what about a debugger?