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

submitted 7 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Rekall_Incorporated@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

it is a very subtile ad for linux

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 8 points 7 months ago

Glad I'm running linux on my asus computer, but I'm gonna re-check my bios for any bullshit like this.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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"

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you don't disable it in the BIOS it will just come back on next boot.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

it didn't come back. But will do.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago

yes it is malware

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Asus hacker: I'm in

[–] apostrofail@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just like the Mozilla Mr. Robot “Easter egg”

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