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Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner
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awesome, merry christmas
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2024
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Why???? who thought this was a good idea?!?
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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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 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
Glad I'm running linux on my asus computer, but I'm gonna re-check my bios for any bullshit like this.
yes it is malware
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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