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Aissen
on July 30, 2012
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Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit
Any mitigation ? Is it possible to disable this browser plugin ?
obtu
on July 30, 2012
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Google and Mozilla will certainly add it to their plugin blacklists. Trojan capabilities remote-controlled through a browser, that's a very serious security risk to their users.
kg
on July 30, 2012
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A bug is filed to blacklist it in Firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778686
fmavituna
on July 30, 2012
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Yes for chrome :
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4311597
should be same for Firefox, IE might require a little bit more. Not sure how it works in IE8+
kinetik
on July 30, 2012
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In Firefox, open "about:addons" in the location bar, select "Plugins" on the left, then you can disable/remove as necessary.
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