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

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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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          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.

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            before you guys upvote him, please read the discussion.

            this guy came to my instance, read what I wrote, typed out a report and submitted it; he blames blindness and small text for not knowing which instance he was on, but neither of those issues prevented him from reading my post (it was a post about abuse, in a community I created, on my own instance) and reporting it. That’s why I banned him. He’s using a disability as an excuse to get away with offensive behavior (ignoring me when I tried to discuss the issue privately first).

            Yes, disabled people can behave offensively. Some disabled people can be selfish. Some of them hurt people, then walk away without apologizing, and blame their disability instead of themselves. To me, that’s abusive, and I call it out instead of letting people get away with it, because I’ve suffered enough at the hands of people who make excuses instead of being accountable.

    • 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.