Damn you, EA! Damn you!!

GRRRRRRRR!!! Why does no one listen to me when I say, check if it has SecuROM!!! Now I gotta wait for techie Uncle to come round and remove it cos I'm sure I'll screw up somewhere. Or maybe I won't bother waiting that long and give it a try anyway.

Here's the quick way to see if your game is infected. Look at the back of the CD. I've even provided a picture for you.

Somewhere where I've shown you, in little writing, you will see the words SONY DADC. This is sekrit code for: Ha ha, l00zers!! U iz pirate! Nao all ur PC r belong to us!!

Update

Utterly brilliant! It's gone!

That was easier than I thought! There's a non-techie way! Whew!

ETA: It looks like it might not have been a game that was responsible after all. I've discovered that (my sister's) Official DSA Theory Test (i.e. the driving theory test) CD has the Sony DADC thing on it too, but most of the stuff mentioned in the MATY thread (e.g. securom folder in your settings folder, the uaservice7.exe thing) weren't present. So maybe it was a less aggressive form of Suck-u-ROM? Still Suck-u-ROM though. Cool, so now even government owned institutions are trying to take over our PCs.

*thinks for a while*

... actually there's nothing surprising about that at all.

ETA Part II : Actually I think it was my sister's Castaway after all

ETA Part IV: It was both.