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[Marshall Henderson]

Another day, another set of Ubisoft issues for PC. This time, it isn't DRM or negligence, however. Nope, it's good ol' fashioned security risks.

UPlay, Ubisoft's DRM platform, has never been popular, but this time it has gone somewhere pretty new with its shenanigans. Apparently, the plugin leaves players with all manner of vulnerabilities, allowing ne'er-do-wells all sorts of opportunities for playing around in a user's computer. The gateway allowing villains into the computer is in the browser plug-in.

Firefox users can deactivate this by going into Tools, Add Ons, then Plugins, then disabling Uplay and UPlay PC Hub.

Google Chrome users just have to go to about:plugins and disable Uplay.

Essentially, it allows a website to be able to install and run programs remotely, which could obviously be used for stealing all sorts of data and damaging computers in any number of irritating ways.

It's exceptionally unlikely that Ubisoft would have done this on purpose, but it is another hurdle PC gamers have had with Ubisoft and their DRM. On the optimistic side, though, at least PC gamers didn't have to wait a month after console release to receive this feature.

The games using Uplay are the following:

Assassin’s Creed II
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin’s Creed: Project Legacy
Assassin’s Creed Revelations
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

It wouldn't be unwise to uninstall anything Uplay-related, including these games, until the issue is resolved.

Ubisoft says they are "looking into" this, but since it's a PC-related issue, it could go either way.

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[Kezins]

Just another good reason to avoid Ubisoft games. I already had a bad taste in my mouth for them and now that taste is worse.