SecuROM blacklists legitimate programs.
Last year 1000s of angry gamers revolted against the starforce DRM, they managed to convince ubisoft to drop the DRM and use a less intrusive type of protection. Unfortunately starforce is not the only DRM guilty of causing problems, SecuROM, a form of copy protection by sony refuses to run games making use of this protection when programs such as process explorer are detected. Process explorer is a legitimate program owned by Microsoft, and it cannot be used for illicit purposes, it is basically a task manager on steroids. All I wanted to do is play some C&C, I start up the game and I am informed that A required security module cannot be activated. This program cannot be executed (5024). Problems like this are inexcusable. I believe the best solution to this problem is to complain to EA, and other companies that use the secuROM copy protection. It worked for starforce, a user revolt can work for secuROM as well. So if you want to make a difference kindly inform EA how you feel about this.
