Starforce Petition!

[orion731]

I realize that this post is getting huge but I thought I'd add my two cents. Before reading this post I knew very little of starforce and the evilness behind it. I was just aware that it was a form of copy protection but I do realize now it is much more than that. I bought the game Breed and installed it without even realizing it was on the dreaded starforce protected list. What are we supposed to memorize this list when choosing a pc game to buy? After installing I have noticed very weird quirks about my system first being that the starforce somehow messed with my file associations when I tried to doubleclick the DVD drive my Audio cd was inserted in. It said there was no file association attached to it. I specifically remember that when I used to doubleclick the drive with an audio CD inserted it opened in Winamp, my music player of choice. So I quickly downloaded the Starforce clean program from this post and *hopefully* removed this starforce driver from my system. My question that I hope someone can answer is "How do you know for sure if starforce has truley been completely uninstalled from your system." Reformatting is NOT an option. Thanks.