Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
I googled "game protection list" and went to the fileforum's index here.

http://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=78998

There I found:

Title: F.E.A.R. - First Encounter Assault Recon
Developer/Publisher: Sierra
Country/Language: US/English
Media Type: 1 DVD
Copy Protection: SecuROM 7.00.00.0107
Scanned with: A-Ray Scanner v2.0.2.3

WHAT!

It's been around since 2005?

Edit: I don't think that list is right. For one, windows search didn't find paul.dll
Yeah it has been around for a while, but the earlier version weren't potential harmful to your PC. I think securom started becoming bad with the bioshock pc release, but even then it was still relatively tame compare to the newest version in spore.