RE: Sony's Web-Based Uninstaller Opens a Big Security Hole; Sony to Recall Discs

["Aditya Deshmukh" <aditya.deshmukh () online gateway strangled net>]

> CodeSupport remains on your system after you leave Sony's site, and it is
> marked as safe for scripting, so any web page can ask CodeSupport to do
> things. One thing CodeSupport can be told to do is download and install
code
> from an Internet site. Unfortunately, CodeSupport doesn't verify that the
> downloaded code actually came from Sony or First4Internet.

Does deleting codesupport from "downloaded program files" ie the actvix
cache 
folder solve this problem ?

Also does someone has its CLASSID so it can be added to the block list ?


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