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Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner (www.windowslatest.com)

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 63 points 20 hours ago (12 children)

That's in the bios, it's a pcie device that windows allows to inject root level code into your environement, you have to turn it off and hope nothing ever spoofs that pcie id because that's a permanent hardware rootkit into your pc like EFI

[–] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 34 points 18 hours ago (11 children)

That's in the bios, it's a pcie device that windows allows to inject root level code into your environement

What. The. Fuck. Are they the only one to install their crap so deep?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

No my ROG board does the same.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

ROG is Asus.

Also I don't think I've ever had this issue with my previous, nor my current rog boards. I never use their drivers CD so maybe that helps

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Just because a the brand is owned by them doesnt mean they do the same.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Or we could all be informed consumers and... research products before we buy them to avoid these kinds of issues.

I'd never buy an Asus product. I hear they're a nightmare when it comes to customer service, so in avoiding them, I avoid that problem.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

I swore myself to never buy an ROG PSU (very noisy fan. Never had an issue with my seagate one being noisy) or a motherboard (armory crate).
Are other (gaming) brands also so shit to have me reset all settings before updating the firmware? e.g Gigabyte, AsRock, EVGA?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

ROG is model line of Asus, not a secondary brand. ROG is to Asus what F-series trucks are to Ford.

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