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Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 66 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd love to know if this was just some guy who went 'let's ship it to all our customers!' or if this was a C-level 300 hours of meetings type of thing which concluded that spreading christmas ~~malware~~ cheer was the right move.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

this was downloaded and 'installed' by asus armory crate, which came from malware baked right into the bios of new and 'newish' asus motherboards (how to disable)