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EA - Planting Rootkits In Gamer's Computers

mypcpros.com — EA released Battlefield 2142 and with it a potential security risk. Nice...

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  • xenoNfluX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is old news. Go back and search the days surrounding the actual launch of the game and you'll see tons of posts regarding this. No digg and buried.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sadly old news
  • cstrippie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From the article: "Will I still play the game? Yes - but I don't have to like it."

    And this is why it will continue.
  • fluffypancake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Agreed. Besides, there's a BIG different between a Rootkit and Battlefield 2142's IP based advertising. BURIED.
  • mypcpros, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Of course it's not a rootkit of the malicious kind -- I have updated this to reflect my opinion that companies that do this sort of thing (like EA and Sony) are walking a fine line when they intrude on their customers this way.
  • TheCigarMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The writer should have researched this a lot better. Rootkit...LOL, what a fool.

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