Starforce is a CD copy protection mechanism, it installs a low level driver onto your system that (to keep it basic) sits between your CD-ROM drive and the Operating System. Its usually used to verify that the real game CD is in the drive before the game will allow itself to be played.
In extreme cases (and despite the developer's insistance that it doesn't) it can cause compatiblity issues, hardware damage or the inability to read some CDs.
As far as I know it does not pose any kind of security risk as such, is not adware/spyware or a trojan and is used by a number of large game publishers.
While on the whole I have no real problems caused by it, I have found that it slows down access to some CDs (reproduceable) and I dislike such software being installed onto my machine without my permission and notice - hence why I will not buy games that use it.
In extreme cases (and despite the developer's insistance that it doesn't) it can cause compatiblity issues, hardware damage or the inability to read some CDs.
As far as I know it does not pose any kind of security risk as such, is not adware/spyware or a trojan and is used by a number of large game publishers.
While on the whole I have no real problems caused by it, I have found that it slows down access to some CDs (reproduceable) and I dislike such software being installed onto my machine without my permission and notice - hence why I will not buy games that use it.