My good friend, the illustrious Bed Burner has been warning you all of the dangers associated with Sony’s XCP copy protection. Just so you’re aware, there are even more problems with it, this time related to the uninstallation of it:

Alex Halderman and I have confirmed that Sony’s Web-based XCP uninstallation utility exposes users to serious security risk. Under at least some circumstances, running Sony’s Web-based uninstaller opens a huge security hole on your computer. We have a working demonstration exploit.

We are working furiously to nail down the details and will report our results here as soon as we can.

In the meantime, we recommend strongly against downloading or running Sony’s Web-based XCP uninstaller.

Yet again, the solution causes more problems than the actual problem. In the meantime, you may want to stay away from any kind of removal utilities until the various sources have all the issues / bugs / kinks worked out. Remember, as Sony put it, since you didn’t know about rootkits anyway, why worry about them?

Source: Freedom to Tinker via Boing Boing

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