I had the same experience recently. It's a rootkit installed by the BIOS to inject the crapware. Immediately returned the ASUS board and got something else. It

I had the same experience recently. It's a rootkit installed by the BIOS to inject the crapware. Immediately returned the ASUS board and got something else. It sucked to tear apart a computer I just built but I don't trust then hardware in my machine now.