[TippeX]

nah, the securom 7 drivers was dropped ages ago, unused afaik, same with the 'user service'...
safedisc also uses drivers, but again, not running all the time which i think is fine, permanent drivers running when there is no need for them to run (especially 'suspicious' ones like the starforce ones) however i dont like, especially when they can interfere with rmps etc.. (and there are also reports of the starforce drivers doing 'funny' things if they think the user is 'messing about' ie: trying to copy a disk etc...)...

starforce drivers are run all the time (even loaded very early in the windows boot stage) because they reroute int 3 and int 1 for their own use (as well as stopping softice from working etc).. int 3 mainly used in their 'virtual file system' crap...