I've just finished a fresh reformat and OS install, I have webroot spysweeper and some other dectection installed first thing... then I install Ubisoft's Heroes of Might and Magic V. and to my suprise the spysweeper quarantines "Intraspy" immediately upon completion of the game installation. (Intraspy is a monitoring program that records user activity, keystrokes, passwords, etc.)
I'd love to know why the heck they need to install some secret monitoring program to record my keystrokes in order to play this damn game.
And the whole reason I formatted is because right after I installed my copy of Spore, I learned about the stupid rootkit DRM bullsh!t that EA games had secretly installed on my system.
It looks like yet another format for me... and yet another game company that I will NEVER purchase a game from.... ever.

I see someone else posted about this back in 2006, and the moderator told him he "must have already been infected" and shut down the topic lol

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4611096804/m/8...871017164#7871017164

I'm behind a ridiculous amount of security and seconds after a fresh reformat and are you going to tell me that I was also 'already infected'? lol

and how about not being so antagonistic ? I must admit i really can't see why you are posting here as it doesn't look like you are expecting a solution to anything.

Also you seem to conveniently forget to mention that the mod in question who locked it not just said it must have already been there, but pointed out to the fact that he himself had pretty much done the same thing as you, and manually gone in after it, yet found nothing.

Just had the same thing happen to me (3 times, the original version and one for each expansion), so its not just a fluke. Ofcourse it was detected and removed as soon as it poppep up.
Note that a program like intraspy must be installed manually, which means it get installed alongside heroes V. So it IS NOT something you just get, its something you have to install yourself, and the warning popping up each time I install a version of heroes V isnt a coincidence.
My original heroes V didnt install any spyware, but for some reason my exclusive version did.
Shame on you Ubi for trying to spy on the ones who actually bought your game.
Im pretty sure its illegal to spy on the consumer without their consent.

Its still happening, even though the last commented incident was along time ago.

Tbh, I've never been able to play HOMMV even once since I bought it a few years back. Installed it on 3 different computers, when finished it says "insert correct disc". After some mailing back and forth with Securom, they suggested I get a new copy of the game. I did, but it had the same effect.

I found in some forum for some other game from UBI that this could happen if the DVD-player was RW (burner) and not just RO. Since pretty much all computers are delivered with DVDRW and I have not intention of buying a DVDRO just to get the game going I thought I try using a "No DVD-fix" to run the game without the disc inserted. That might have worked but I encountered problems with that Intraspy-dll that the antivirus/antispyware-software keeps blocking. This file does get installed by the original CD, but also from the patches (!). And since I can't get the patches installed, the NoDVD-fix won't work either. Murphy's law once again.

I've played several other games from UBI and they are usually very good. This is the first time I've encountered this amount of problems. Perhaps the AV-software is mistaken about this file, but I don't really want to risk it.

Oh well, better luck next time. Anyone knows if HOMMV was fun?

Woohoo, got it working! Thought I'd investigate a final time before chucking it in the bin, and actually got it working.

Seems some Antivirus/antispyware-software are a bit over-protecting, and flags harmless files as threats. In this case, Spysweeper, was just lazy enough to trigger on the filename (issrv.dll) instead of actually checking the file. I tested by renaming a textfile to issrv.dll and to my surprize: the AV-software instantly put it in quarantine.

Spysweeper is a great removal/protect tool, but the possibilities of configuration is rather limited. Since you can't add exceptions (at least I couldn't find it), you'll have to remove the "automatically quarantine.." checkbox. After that I could allow the installation of patches to finish. It still wouldn't start using the original DVD, but the NoDVD-fix worked like a charm (got it from gamecopyworld.com).

Off now to test the game for the first time in 3 years. Hope it doesn't suck

/Cheers