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Reinstalling doesn’t necessarily help - coincidentally (or not), Lenovo has been caught in the past embedding crap into the firmware so it persists through rein
by noinsight 7y ago
Reinstalling doesn’t necessarily help - coincidentally (or not), Lenovo has been caught in the past embedding crap into the firmware so it persists through reinstalls.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenovo-busted-stealthily-installing-crapware-via-bios-fresh-windows-installs.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenov...
- pritambaral 7y agoTo quote a cousin comment[1]: That's relying on a Windows misfeature. Ubuntu is not going to pull crap from the firmware after a clean reinstall, but Windows does just that. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22191786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22191786
- vips7L 7y agoIf I remember correctly they could only do this because of a Windows feature.