On a related note: Does FTDI still write driver malware? They've been caught with their pants twice. There is no way in hell I'm buying their ICs again.
Their devices are also overpriced to a degree borders on comical, so they're not hard to avoid. For the price of their USB-UART chips you can get a top-tier microcontroller that can do USB-UART easily as fast, and still have plenty of capacity to spare.