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Trackmania Nations - Contains Starforce protection and adware
markb:
My apologies for posting this without a bit more research, I presumed (naively) that when download.com say they do not allow adware and spyware programs on their site it means exactly that.
Trackmania Nations installs the Starforce protection drivers and although I have been unable to find any myself there are quite a few reports that it installs adware as well.
I suggest anyone who wishes to download and install it bears this in mind.
Howard_Casto:
It's been reported by AOTS that this release of trackmania contains spyware, and that is why it is free. That is the real reason it keeps trying to dial out.
I can't confirm this though.
SirPoonga:
Why does a free program have copy protection?
Howard_Casto:
Because they are retarded?
Sorry I don't have an answer for that one.
markb:
The starforce drivers that trackmania installs are on a lot of commercial software as well and remain on your system even after the game is un-installed. They prevent or at least make very difficult the use of pirated software, backed up software or no cd cracks. From what I understand they are similar in nature to Sony root kit that stirred up a hornets nest a short while back and hide themselves somewhere that can only be seen by viewing the hidden devices in the device manager. I guess that by installing these on freely available software Nadeo hope to prevent the piracy of commercial software.
Regardless of the piracy issue I do not like software installed on my pc that I didn't deliberately put there and is very difficult to remove.
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