Blue screens of Fail.
Thats great but 310.90 also kills my PC, Poor little Geforce 8300GS.
Nvidia has plugged a critical flaw in its graphics card software that allowed hackers to gain "super-user" access to vulnerable PCs over a network. The Nvidia GeForce display driver update, version 310.90, also features a number of other bug fixes and performance upgrades. "The vulnerability allows a remote attacker with a …
I've just found out that 310.90 isn't compatible with GeForce 6 series and Geforce 7 series cards. In which case, as this is a security vulnerability, I think Nvidia should release an update for the 306.97 driver, so that people who can't install the 310.90 driver are not vulnerable to this security flaw in their software.
"Don't quite get why video card drivers need to have access to any networking capability what-so ever." So they can automatically look for updates. A lot of games issues are caused by out of date drivers, and most users are too clueless or too scared to download and install updates manually.