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Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner
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this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2024
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I had windows update try to brick the BIOS on my Lenovo workstation recently. I can't believe Microsoft and manufacturers do this kind of shit. Luckily my workstation had dual BIOS so I could recover it. Between that and the fact that lenovo manufacturer locks their processors I would have waited until I could afford a supermicro had I known.
That shits on Lenovo because I never had an issue with Microsoft updating the UEFI of HP machines of our clients.
https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/hp-bricks-probook-laptops-with-bad-bios-many-users-face-black-screen-after-windows-includes-firmware-in-automatic-updates
I'm not trying to protect lenovo. I think they are a shit company now, and I should have some my research better before buying my computer, but they aren't the only ones doing this. Anyone who's done BIOS updates knows that shouldn't be done automatically, but manufacturers and Microsoft seem to think it's a good idea to push it through automatic updates.
Especially when there's a chance that the bios update resets the tpm and if the user has enabled bitlocker (automatically done in background without user consent on windows 11 if using a Microsoft account) then they need to type the decryption key to boot again.
Happened twice on my laptop
Never said HP are saints either. Just my anectode of it not happening (yet).