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Didn't they also install some malware in UEFI at one point? Which is even worse, since you can install Linux on Lenovo laptops wiping out their pre-installed (b
by shmerl 8y ago
Didn't they also install some malware in UEFI at one point? Which is even worse, since you can install Linux on Lenovo laptops wiping out their pre-installed (but non refundable) Windows, but you can't easily replace UEFI there.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 8y agoThey did have a firmware-based malware dropper. The "only" thing it did was re-infect clean Windows installations, so installing Linux would still mean you'd be fine as the second stage wouldn't be dropped, but of course that's not a technical limitation - they could have built it to also infect Linux, but didn't.
- pritambaral 8y agoThey couldn't have. The dropper was passive, abusing a Windows mechanism designed for installing vendor software, in which Windows looks for such software and executes it. Linux does not go diving in UEFI looking for executables to run.