What exactly are you implying here? That the normal SecuROM uninstaller doesn't do its job?
It's pretty well documented that it doesn't.
I don't really care if the uninstaller or "removal tool" actually works. An uninstaller doing a shitty job doesn't make software a rootkit.
SecuROM installed null character registry keys that cannot be removed from Windows under any normal circumstance or by a regular user using the regular tools available to them.
SecuROM also installs hidden folders in unrelated directories to either the game or the SecuROM installation directory.
You have to go
well out of your way from anything even approaching regular computer use to be able to remove it from your system.
There's nothing stopping me from manually uninstalling SecuROM, just like there isn't anything stopping you from shifting the burden of proof.
I told you to install it so you could find sympathy with the people who aren't super fucking eager to have unwanted software that causes instability and potential attack vectors and security holes just for wanting to play a fucking game they purchased legally (because pirate copies don't have securom).
No, that was the oft quoted convenient definition of rootkit when SecuROM was a big activism thing, but just because pc users co-opted a term that was and still is in use in more serious computing environments doesn't mean they can re-define it any way they like.
The definition of a term is what the majority of people using it take it to mean.
Gay doesn't just mean joyful and happy any more bro.
Since nobody has any evidence this current solution is malicious, the term rootkit is pejorative and nothing more.
I never called this solution a rootkit.
I don't think anyone did.
