The updated rootkit will be uploaded and installed to your computer kernel automatically upon closure of the deal.

I posted this to /c/news where it was promptly removed of course

For good reasons of course

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    16 days ago

    I was going to proudly mention we don’t have any EA titles on our families steam libraries, thinking of their biggest names.

    But then I found some abandonware like title in one of my kids libraries. So now I need to do more digging (oops, found more). Ofcourse all our machines run Linux (do I need to mention the distro? I feel I do but you can probably guess) so kernel mode access isn’t likely. But I think I need to pay more attention to sandboxing and isolating games.

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        15 days ago

        I shouldn’t call it abandonware. First thing I found was Plants vs Zombies came up under EA in one of my kids libraries - sort of thing that runs well on his under powered school laptop. Think I mixed it up with Bad Piggies and all those old Rovio mobile games that basically got abandoned as publishers moved to adware and pay to win crap.

        When I think of EA titles I think of Sims and sports and battlefield - which we don’t really play. I found It Takes Two and a few really old titles like Mirrors’s Edge that nobody plays and I don’t think are installed anywhere. Wasn’t sure about their relationship with Crytek. Not going to go too crazy removing stuff but its a good reminder to have a think about game sandboxing.