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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

Jeez, thanks for the heads up

woah...guess i shall stay clear of that :D :D :wink:

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.

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/

HMMMM - AREA 51 had it - then the makers removed it in a patch !!!


Check your game drivers for "infection"
Removal tool at http://www.glop.org/starforce/#games or
http://www.glop.org/files/sfdrvrem.zip


I wonder if it caused some of the slow downs & issues ??

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 ?

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... :?

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 ?

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?

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