No offence intended, but your all idiots if you cannot see the issues raised by root kit and stealth-ware technologies, technical, ethical and practical.
some basic points people need to be aware of. people on the internet LOVE to cause a fuss for no reason other than they can, without in real life being branded a tit and having no friends. the copying more than 2 times giving you slots back thing is broken, they fixed the issue, the ONLY people who ACTUALLY had the problem were people LOOKING TO BREAK IT in the first place. just like the moron who went around recently saying, "i opened 82 IE windows and vista crashed, so therefore its crap", which caused a lot of people to try it and it didn't crash vista for them. people go a massive way to try to cause things to break. you run a engine at its max rev's and max speed for too long and it will break, but works fine under normal and heavy usage.
as for rookits its NOT a rootkit. rootkit is a internet hype word, it means nothing. there are a kazillion virus's around, and 3 of them attack old rootkits, boohoo. EVERY single piece of software CAN and might have vunerabilities in it that can allow massive access to your system. i mean EVERY piece of software can do something unintended, thats life. not installing securecom, which for once seems to have worked, because one other program had a vunerability MANY years ago.
but you have windows installed, and that has also had vunerabilities, and AV apps have had problems, and driver sets have caused bluescreens, yet you still install drivers i'd guess? so in other words, you are picking on this one app, for no reason at all, because the internet told you too.
just waiting for someone to tell all these non thinking followers of whatever the latest cause is on the internet, to jump off a cliff tbh.
as for working patches. lets be honest, i can't name a single release of any game, including every AAA title for the last 3-4 years that hasn't been available for download with a crack before or on the day of release. this is the first game you simply had to buy to play on release. that has not happened in 3-4 years, exe files are very small, easy to read, easy to work out whats going on. theres only so much code and frankly, doesn't take genius's to alter. so for it not to be working now, is very impressive.
i've also never found a file that can't be deleted yet, and have deleted securcom on previous installs. afaik, plenty of games, infact dozens/hundreds install new dx versions, new updates for C++ distributables, windows updates, ageia drivers, havoc software and plenty of other software, and again none of those games uninstall any of that stuff when you uninstall the game. so again, people with their limited memories claiming its the first to do this, its not normal, never happens before, is a security risk, is bad, is all complete crap tbh.
anyway, its windows that allows root access to drivers, if they didn't they'd have to come up with other software. securcom is one of hundreds of bits of software on your computer with the same access that run all the time. so why are people picking on this one? because the internet told them to, without a lick of proof anywhere its bad.
remember, don't install ati/nvidia windows default video drivers, they might have vunerabilities
