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vyrotek on July 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit

I think they just fixed this. It opened Uplay and it instantly downloaded a new update released today.

Version 2.0.4 - Monday July 30th 2012 - "Fix addressing browser plugin. Plugin now only able to open Uplay application"

MichaelGG on July 30, 2012 [–]

I would love to see how they patched it. Seems folks like these might implement a check like 'cmd.Contains("uplay.exe")' and let you do "C:\whatever\uplay.exe\..\..\bad.exe".

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