• viking@infosec.pub
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      It also automatically reinstalls itself through a BIOS feature. That’s advanced level malware.

      • FuCensorship@lemmy.today
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        Right? I thought I read that wrong!

        To disable future crap like this you gotta do it in the FUCKING BIOS? Wtf Asus…

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        The seven windows 11 users disagree with you

        (I am not one of them)

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        Hey Nocture you didn’t respond to my private message so I’m asking publicly, when you reported me to myself here, what did you expect me to do about it? Ban myself? And what rule did I break? My instance (yes, I’m the owner) doesn’t require AskLemmy to have open-ended question format. In fact, the sidebar explicitly states this. Not sure what your expectation was.

        dummy

        Next time it would be polite to answer the private message. Happy holidays.

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          I did not reply because it was obvious I made a mistake (as a partially blind person does when reading small text.) And you took a widely accepted community name and format and gave it your own twist, then sent a PM that was obviously looking for drama. Which is further obvious here.

    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I think the title indicates that it’s like the malware known as “Christmas.exe”.

      Edit: I have too much faith in humanity…

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        The title is pushing the narrative that “real companies” doing hostile bullshit isn’t “real malware”.

        When companies ship malware, it should be called malware.

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          Most malware is corporate shitware.

          Compared to the wealth of pop-ups, ads and tracker cookies ubiquitous in every website that are burning down forests so they can run black box algorithms to optimize dark patterns for extracting as much revenue as possible while working the sweatshop poor to the bone - worming their way into everything without the condom of extensions - a cryptostealer disguised as ChatGPT_NFT_money_explosion.exe made by some teenager in albania feels… benign.

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        From the article:

        Even worse, the malware-looking Christmas wreath is linked to a process called “Christmas.exe.”

        So the process was actually called that. It popped up on my machine this morning and I immediately started scanning the whole system for malware and searching to see if anyone else had this problem.