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I bought a laptop once. It came with windows pre-installed. And a bunch of bloatware. And 101 things that phoned home under the guise of checking that a driv

I bought a laptop once. It came with windows pre-installed. And a bunch of bloatware. And 101 things that phoned home under the guise of checking that a driver was up to date. And Norton. The definition of malware is open to large interpretation.

npteljes 5y ago
>I bought a laptop once. It came with windows pre-installed Some would say, not without merit in my opinion, that the malware part started with Windows itself. https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html But even if we aren't that stringent with the definition of malware, we had malware preinstalled on our computers quite some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_in... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell#Self-signed_root_certificate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell#Self-signed_root_certific...