Starforce virus?
 

Hey,
I have Silent Hunter 3, and while I would much rather play it without carring arround my CD (i have a laptop) I´m dealing with it...but I just found out a site which is offering a starforce remover, because it is installed in your PC and can cause serious problems to it...is this for real? how does this remover work?

Well like the program says it will remove the Starforce Drivers from your system! BUT games which need the Starforce Drivers installed will no longer work! So if you want to play your Starforce games DONT use Starforce Clean. ;)

Hi, starforce remover work proper if you download it direct from starforce official website or from game manufacterer. Don't download it from other sites, some sites purpose a virus or a dialer with name starforce remover. To play starforce protectd gamez you need reinstall the starforce driverS or use some good cracks theyre don't need this drivers. Starforce drivers run constantly on your computer and use many ressources the final result is slow computer, same results as a troyan, by older dvd or cd drives starforce destroy the drives and you can go to buy a new cd dvd rom drive. dont buy or use starforce protected sh*t.
all oinfos about sf can found here:
http://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=70333

Have fun and play other gamez boïcott starforce! :D

i installed gtr some time ago...it has sf3.
after a week my pc booted 3 min (before: 1 1/2 min)...
so i decided to uninstall the game and the sf drivers.....
but after uninstalling the sf drivers it was even worse : my comp needed almost 5 min (!!!) to boot WinXP and my hdd worked with constantly 3.6 mb/s read speed !!!
i hate SF !!!

Why you think it's SF3, which make the trouble?
Perhaps this GTR game is the cause ???

I never had a problem with SF3 protected games and the SF3-driver !!!

maybe ...
but why should it crash after uninstalling STARFORCE ??? :confused:
after uninstalling the SF drivers that came with SC3 i had similar problems...
so i guess it's up to starforce ;)

@muJi.fiGHt3r: Once the IDE hot swap software I'm using crashed the machine. From then on, the hard disk rack, being swapped, went down from 40 Mbyte/sec to 5 Mbyte/sec. I reinstalled the nVidia nForce 2 drivers for my motherboard, including the IDE bus master driver, and the transfer speed went up again. Apparently, the installation reinitialized something in the registry... You should try it, too!

While people may not believe this, Starforce completly trashed my PC. While I have no proof of this, the SF3 protected game (X2: The Threat) was the first thing that I installed on a clean, fully updated PC. I then attempt to load the game, reboot and am presented with the dreaded BSOD. Cleaning in Safe mode didn't really help, and so I formatted- No more probs.
Draw your own conclusions.

-Leezer-

So let me see if I got this staright...
Ubisoft has installed a secret program (without my authorization) that can cause some problems generaly asociated with a computer virus...If I were american I would SUE THE F**K OUT OF THEM! How dare they do that? I bought a legitimate copy of their damn game and they treat me like a thief the have to keep tabs on? Maybe the starforce is also a troyan which is secretly spying on my files too...at least steam let you know what you might be getting into....I´m in too, :mad: Boycott Starforce!

As ive said before, you agreed to install Starforce through the EULA, which about 99% of end-users never read anyways :P

I own a Pizzeria, and it´s like saying that you are not responsable for someone beign foodpoisoned because of your food, because nobody forced them to eat it...you hold a responsability to your customers. And in NO WAY is the use of starforce covered in those in the agreement...because it´s not only a troyan (insalled without warning or notification of it´s consequences), but it can cause damage to your PC and interfer with it´s operation...so by this rationale, publishers could include troyans & even more delightful virus in their games, and nobody would be accountable for it but the end user....I´m one of the idiots who paid for a legit copy of their game....but I sincerly hope that those looking for the cd fix can come through and then "distribute" their damn games all over the damn world!

Who do you think you're?
Why do you call me (and other FileForums members) an idiot?
(Yes i buy my games!)

aycabron expressed himself a bit harshly but he meant that, in his opinion, it was a damn mistake to waste money on a software that, without any warning in advance, may damage his computer. Gotta agree with this one! :)

We all do here on fileforums
I believe in reading a (trusted source) review before buying a game. But sometimes the need for new games comes in stronger and I buy something I regret.

I attempt a return if it damaged my PC in any way.

Sometimes the only thing I will get in return is a non-returnable game (not store credit even) that I have to buy on the spot.
and sometimes (especially with PS2 problems) they *cough*GAMESTOP*cough*will offer an exact copy only (returnable for yet another copy of the same game)

In germany you can't return the game (software) to shop after opened the box.
Some shop take the software back, but no shop is obligates to take it back.

In Australia, your can buy a game from EB Games (Electronic Boutique) and return it within 7 days without giving a reason why you are returning it! You can even say "I didnt like the game"! Not that I have ever needed to do this as I research every game before I actually buy it. Most times I will rent a game first to try it. My local game rental shop will allow you to rent a game then if you decide to buy it they will take of the price of the rental from the sale price.

Thats a good posistion for the consumer to be in. Im in the UK and we used to have "EB" but its now called "Game". Game also used to allow you buy a PC game and return it within 14 days regardless of your reasons. Now this has changed and they no longer do it :( . In the UK some shops will still allow you to return a game after purchase regardless of reasons but this dosent extend to PC titles as well. I noticed that game selling shops have changed their attitude towards the return of PC games (obviously due to them being coppied and then returned for a full refund). Now in the UK the time has come where all (if not most) game selling shops DONT allow the return of PC games for a refund or even a swap of game unless its a store that dose secondhand games to swap. How times have changed the past couple of years mostly due to piracy (imo). So i now (always did actualy) make sure i have looked into good trusted reviwes before i spend my hard earned £s on a game. I have been able to find a couple of stores that will allow the return of a PC game but its not how it used to be and its all down to what the consumer says the reason for returning the game is. My advice to all is to look at reveiws before parting with your £s.

bummer

is it for games only or for regular merchandise as well?

LOL It would be good for regular merchandise huh. Tell you what would be even better than merchandise returning regardless of reasons and that would be being able to return ones spouce,girlfreind etc (regardless of reasons) :D

(mine would of been traded in the minute she started popping babies out) :)

Yes, that's sad in some way...but some shops are so friendly and do it (except MP-games like BF2 or Söldner - Secret Wars)...
In my shop - "Media Point Bernau" (near Berlin) - they normally take it back if you have already opened it and don't like it or you have probs with your hardware... ;)