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Author: | skipclarke [ 05 Mar 2006, 00:44 ] |
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This from Monitor magazine A fantastic game called (but don't dare buy it!) Heroes of the Pacific (HOTP) by Developer: IR Gurus (Melbourne, Australia) http://www.irgurus.com/ http://www.heroesofthepacific.com/gameinfo.php Current Starforce Infected Games List Here http://www.star-force.com (by a Russian game company) Installs an active & very invasive form of copyright (SecuROM) that hooks to the net when playing the game or not & even after game is un-installed. :shock: The hard to find removal tool on their site - does not appear to remove it :shock: http://www.onlinesecurity-on.com/protect.phtml?=55 Released Starforced Games - Check updated site list !! 7 Sins Air Conflicts American Conquest: Divided Nation Ankh Anstoss 4 Bandits: Phoenix Rising Bet on Soldier Beyond Divinity Black Mirror Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII Blitzkrieg 2 Blitzkrieg: Rolling Thunder Breed Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood Castle Strike Chaos League Chaos League: Sudden Death City Life Codename: Outbreak Codename: Panzers - Phase One Codename: Panzers - Phase Two Cold War Colin McRae Rally 2005 Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars Crazy Frog Racer Cross Racing Championship 2005 Curse: The Eye of Isis Cycling Manager 3 Cycling Manager 4 D-Day Dead to Rights Demonic Speedway Desert Rats vs Afrika Korps Domination Dreamfall Emergency Fire Response Enigma: Rising Tide Etherlords II Fire Chief Fire Department FlatOut 2 Freedom Force vs The Third Reich Gangland Garfield Gene Troopers Gooka: The Mystery of Janatris GT Legends GTR: FIA GT Racing Game Hammer & Sickle Happiness Horse Race Manager I-Ninja Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter Journey to the Centre of the Earth Keepsake Kicker Manager 2004 Kill Switch King Kong Knights of the Temple 2 Korea: Forgotten Conflict Kuro No Uta Hime L.A. Rush LMA Professional Manager 2005 Lock On: Flaming Cliffs Mad Tracks Medieval Lords Micro Machines V4 Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition Miko X Mono Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Neuro Hunter Nibiru Night Watch Obscure Pac Man World 2 Pac Man World 3 Pacific Storm Paradise Pariah Pax Romana Perimeter Perimeter: Emperor's Testament Pferdehof - Pferd und Pony Pop Star Academy Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones Pro Cycling Manager Saison 2006 Pro Rugby Manager Psi-Ops Pure Pinball Rally Championship Xtreme Restricted Area Revolution RHEM 2 : La Cité Interdite Ricky Ponting International Cricket 2005 Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War (NDA Beta Version) Runaway: A Road Adventure Rush For Berlin Scrapland Second Sight Silent Hunter 3 Silent Storm Silkolene Honda Motocross GP Singles 2 : Triple Trouble Singles : Flirt Up Your Life Sniper Elite Soldiers Heroes of World War 2 Sommerspiele 2004 Space Rangers 2 SpellForce 2 Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory Star Wolves Steel Saviour Still Life Street Racing Syndicate Sudeki SuperPower 2 Syberia II The Fall : Last Days of Gaia The Moment of Silence The Stalin Subway The Suffering: Ties That Bind The Westerner TOCA Race Driver 2 : The Ultimate Racing Simulator TOCA Race Driver 3 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six : Lockdown Torrente 3 TrackMania TrackMania : Power Up ! TrackMania Nations TrackMania Original TrackMania Sunrise TrackMania Sunrise eXtreme Traitors Gate 2: Cypher Ubersoldier UFO: Aftershock Universal Combat: A World Apart Universal Combat Gold V8 Supercars 2 V8 Supercars 3 Virtual Skipper 3 Virtual Skipper 4 Vivisector War on Terror Wildlife Park Wildlife Park 2 Wintersport Pro 2006 World Racing 2 World War II: Frontline Command Worms 4: Mayhem X3: Reunion XIII Xpand Rally Xuan-Yuan Sword 4 |
Author: | Aimes [ 05 Mar 2006, 01:27 ] |
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Jeez, thanks for the heads up |
Author: | LuckMC11 [ 05 Mar 2006, 04:49 ] |
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woah...guess i shall stay clear of that :D :D :wink: |
Author: | neoWidescreen [ 05 Mar 2006, 12:53 ] |
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Too bad, because it receives an average of a 7 or 8 out of 10 by most reviewers, and it's meant to be a lot of fun. But Starforce & other copy-protection schemes are pure evil... so i will avoid. |
Author: | slick0 [ 05 Mar 2006, 15:03 ] |
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Some reading for those interested: Games that use Starforce: http://www.glop.org/starforce/#games boingboing article on Starforce: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/30/anticopying_malware_.html TomsHardware article: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/02/11/starforce_revisited_uk/ |
Author: | Paddy the Wak [ 05 Mar 2006, 18:28 ] |
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Sounds really nasty... but I have several of those games and never noticed a problem ... :? So ... is this only a problem if you use your drives for copying or writing or will you end up with problems regardless ? |
Author: | Paradigm Shifter [ 05 Mar 2006, 18:33 ] |
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Y'know, I'm sure Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter was out before StarForce started being used... and I'm not sure Broken Sword 3 had it, either... :? |
Author: | Paradigm Shifter [ 05 Mar 2006, 18:36 ] |
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Sounds really nasty... but I have several of those games and never noticed a problem ... :? Depends, from what I can tell. Some systems get really unstable, others don't seem to even blink. Even so, why risk it? I've got Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory installed on one box, and ever since I did it's had stability issues... caused by StarForce, I guess. Got no way to verify that, though... ... Am I the only person here who doesn't quite trust a removal tool made by the company that makes such a 'backdoor' anti-copy program? |
Author: | skipclarke [ 05 Mar 2006, 18:43 ] |
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Help is now here :lol: Tutorial: Star Force Copyright Malware Removal Tool As far as I can tell the infection is removed - however if it converted files to **SIS or similar we would need a root forensic analysis done to prove that either way. :wink: EDIT: FEAR does NOT have it |
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