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Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner
(www.windowslatest.com)
awesome, merry christmas
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2024
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Why???? who thought this was a good idea?!?
Make no mistake, they will backpedal and apologize, but this was a flex. They want the public to know that their machines are fucking pwnt from top to bottom and they shouldn’t try any funny shit.
I find it difficult to choose a motherboard because they all look shady. aSUS should be criticized for creating a bad app and installing it without consent but I feel like this could have been any other motherboard manufacture.
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I got on this on Windows 10 too.
At first I thought I got a virus or something, but then realized this was some ASUS bullshit.
it is a very subtile ad for linux
Windows is malware
yes it is malware
Glad I'm running linux on my asus computer, but I'm gonna re-check my bios for any bullshit like this.
Sure, ASUS is real bad for doing this, but Windows 11 users kind of have it coming to them.
This might be an unpopular take here on Lemmy but macOS, Linux or Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC IoT 2021 aren't for everyone.. Hell, I wouldn't expect typical users to even know how to reinstall their operating system at all.
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The feature that allows manufacturers to push software onto clean installs has existed since Windows 8. If you're advertising for Windows 10, you might want to try again.
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Yeah, when I saw that shit I had a mini heart attack. Opened up process explorer to identify what was running. Found it was Asus and basically said "huh, how are you still here - delete"
If you don't disable it in the BIOS it will just come back on next boot.
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