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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Eric P on July 30, 2012, 09:23:16 AM

Title: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: Eric P on July 30, 2012, 09:23:16 AM: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/07/30/psa-possible-security-risk-in-some-ubisoft-pc-games/

Warning: Big Security Risk In Some Ubisoft PC Games

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We’re currently investigating the full extent of this, but moralising and recrimination can come later. For now, the important thing is to warn folks who have certain Ubisoft games installed on their PCs that an apparent backdoor has been discovered in the Uplay infrastructure/DRM which may in theory allow any anyone so minded to install God knows what horrors on your PC. It isn’t confirmed as definite, but certainly proof of concept code is calling up Uplay windows and then loading other programs from websites that have nothing to do with Ubisoft. If Uplay is on your PC, I urge you to uninstall it and any games that use it immediately, until we know more. Update: the flaw lies specifically in a browser plugin Uplay quietly installs, and the general consensus is now that’s all you need to remove to protect yourself. See below for details on how to rid your PC of it.

Firefox:
Tools – Add-ons – Plugins – Disable the Uplay and Uplay PC Hub plugins

Chrome:
Visit about:plugins and disable

Opera:
Settings – Preferences – Advanced – Downloads – Search “Uplay”, delete

Affected Titles
Assassin’s Creed II
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin’s Creed: Project Legacy
Assassin’s Creed Revelations
Assassin’s Creed III
Beowulf: The Game
Brothers in Arms: Furious 4
Call of Juarez: The Cartel
Driver: San Francisco
Heroes of Might and Magic VI
Just Dance 3
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Pure Football
R.U.S.E.
Shaun White Skateboarding
Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: demi on July 30, 2012, 09:29:53 AM: uhauhahua uahaha :nsfw
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: Brehvolution on July 30, 2012, 09:42:35 AM: I just bought Driver and was wondering what this Uplay shit was.
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 30, 2012, 09:52:24 AM: :piss Ubisoft :piss2
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 30, 2012, 10:03:55 AM: Suck my balls, Ubishit! :maf

Also, wtf Just Dance 3 came out on the PC? How do you even play it?
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 30, 2012, 10:21:36 AM: Uplay installed with From Dust on my computer.
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on July 30, 2012, 12:05:43 PM: Brothers in Arms: Furious Four?

how is that affected, its not even out. Hell, I thought it was canceled?
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: Momo on July 30, 2012, 12:08:21 PM: lucky i own no oobisoft game on Pc
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: Bebpo on July 30, 2012, 12:13:45 PM: Hmm, I don't have the browser plugin despite having playing at least one or two UPLAY titles since my last windows install. Maybe when you uninstall the games it removes it?
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 30, 2012, 12:25:31 PM: Quote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on July 30, 2012, 12:05:43 PM
Brothers in Arms: Furious Four?

how is that affected, its not even out. Hell, I thought it was canceled?

This smells like console fud, spread because they're mad jelly of our AA and 1080p.

Ubisoft still sucks, though.
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: D3RANG3D on July 30, 2012, 02:40:16 PM: I don't own any Ubisoft games :smug
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: MCD on July 30, 2012, 03:22:19 PM: IE users are safe.
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 30, 2012, 03:25:10 PM: Quote from: MCD on July 30, 2012, 03:22:19 PM
IE users are safe.

:hans1
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: Positive Touch on July 30, 2012, 04:22:51 PM: oh man im so pissed i paid ubisoft money to fuck over my computer

OH WAIT
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: Himu on July 30, 2012, 06:03:53 PM: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/07/30/ubisoft-respond-to-uplay-security-drama/#more-118159
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 30, 2012, 06:25:54 PM: Uplay doesn't even NEED browser plugins anyway.
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: chronovore on July 30, 2012, 08:04:23 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 30, 2012, 06:25:54 PM
Uplay doesn't even NEED browser plugins anyway.

Yeah, that just seems... rude.
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: benjipwns on July 31, 2012, 12:02:08 PM: But how many pirates were stopped?

Assassin’s Creed III and Brothers in Arms: Furious 4 are nowhere to be found on torrent sites.
Title: Re: Goddammit, Ubisoft (of interest to PC Gamers Only) (and Demi to mock them)
Post by: pilonv1 on July 31, 2012, 07:56:36 PM: Quote from: benjipwns on July 31, 2012, 12:02:08 PM
But how many pirates were stopped?

Assassin’s Creed III and Brothers in Arms: Furious 4 are nowhere to be found on torrent sites.

:lol