New Mac user here. My wife installed Creature Creator (CC) on her MacBook Pro for our daughter to use before I heard about the "issues".
...I took a look around the Creature Creator files and a Securom folder is dropped at:
/Users/Chris/Library/Preferences/SPORE/Creature Creator/Preferences/p_drive/User/Application Data/SecuROM
However, that looks more like a remnant of what the install would look like on Windows than anything.
... I don't want a potential rootkit on my machine.
Just out of curiosity, I moved the SecuROM folder to the desktop and started CC. At first, I thought it hung at the EA splash screen, but it finally loaded. After exiting, I found it had rewritten the folder.
If anyone's feeling equally adventurous, there is a rootkit detector for OS X. Curious to see if it finds anything:
http://www.christian-hornung.de/
Tried it. Everything seems OK with the exception of the following warnings:
-e [15:33:19] Warning: Syslog configuration file allows remote logging: install.* @127.0.0.1:32376
-e [15:33:25] Warning: Hidden file found: /usr/share/man/man5/.rhosts.5.gz: gzip compressed data, was ".rhosts.5", from Unix, last modified: Sat Nov 24 16:15:22 2007
And here is the summary:
e [15:33:27] System checks summary
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-e [15:33:27] File properties checks...
-e [15:33:27] Required commands check failed
-e [15:33:27] Files checked: 80
-e [15:33:27] Suspect files: 0
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-e [15:33:27] Rootkit checks...
-e [15:33:27] Rootkits checked : 77
-e [15:33:27] Possible rootkits: 0
[15:33:27]
-e [15:33:27] Applications checks...
-e [15:33:27] Applications checked: 6
-e [15:33:27] Suspect applications: 0
[15:33:27]
-e [15:33:27] The system checks took: 53 seconds
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-e [15:33:27] Info: End date is Tue Sep 16 15:33:27 CDT 2008
Any thoughts from the more experienced users?