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Lenovo too. It's called Windows Platform Binary Table, and lets the firmware provide an EXE for Windows to execute on boot. So even if you install a clean OS,
by tgsovlerkhgsel 4y ago
Lenovo too.
It's called Windows Platform Binary Table, and lets the firmware provide an EXE for Windows to execute on boot. So even if you install a clean OS, this will run, and there is no mandatory prompt (if it's run through this approach and you see a prompt, then the software that was run was nice enough to ask, it was not Windows asking you to confirm whether that is OK).
- m463 4y agoLenovo has a pretty storied history with this sort of thing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_in...
- koala_man 4y ago> It's called Windows Platform Binary Table When I was in college it was called a hardware rootkit
- smoldesu 4y agoYep, experienced this a few times on their consumer products and even older Thinkpads licensed with Windows 10 Home. It is possible to neuter all (most?) of the bloatware by deleting the associated binaries and wiping all of Lenovo's background processes, but it's still a royal pain-in-the-ass when reinstalling Windows on it. They're easy to shut up with Linux, but my heart weeps for those who insist on using Windows.