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I bought a laptop from Dell and found the Windows install had been tampered with; there were all sorts of adware and trial software installed. Luckily, since th
by mort96 4y ago
I bought a laptop from Dell and found the Windows install had been tampered with; there were all sorts of adware and trial software installed. Luckily, since the boot loader wasn't locked, I could install my own, clean OS.
- _23sd 4y agoI don’t think that’s the point, when you get a device from Aliexpress that’s been tampered by the retailer (as opposed to the OEM), the bootloader will already be unlocked and you could install a clean OS. That’s okay if you are the one buying the device and somehow trust that the retailer hasn’t messed with the hardware as well, but it doesn’t help the manufacturer that wants to stop retailers from messing with the OS in the first place.
- hulitu 4y agoOEM or retailer it is the same thing: the device has been compromised.