Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit

Re:Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit by Aissen on Monday July 30, 2012 @06:04AM (#4311624)

Any mitigation ? Is it possible to disable this browser plugin ?

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Re:Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit by obtu on Monday July 30, 2012 @06:11AM (#4311644)

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.

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Re:Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit by kevingadd on Monday July 30, 2012 @06:51AM (#4311756)

A bug is filed to blacklist it in Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778686

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Re:Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit by fmavituna on Monday July 30, 2012 @06:05AM (#4311627)

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+

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Re:Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit by kinetik on Monday July 30, 2012 @06:49AM (#4311746)

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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