For the PC with Mass Effect, any chance you ever run Process Explorer on that machine?

I ran into this issue just today. Was thinking about buying Spore and so I fired up the Creature Creator. Which refused to start, due to Securom. After a bit of research, I found out that Securom hates Process Explorer so much, that its "protected" games won't start if Process Explorer has been used at any time during the current computer session. I had always thought it would barf just when Process Explorer was currently running.

So, in theory, the game will run after a reboot. But why should I reboot my machine just to play a game? Because I used some tool on my machine that had nothing to do with the DRM?

Anyways, this was the first time Securom has bitten me and was enough to make me decide against buying Spore.