Dell Diagnostic Software Flagged as Malware

Malwarebytes is confirming what many have believed for a long time: Dell pre-installed software is the devil. Malwarebytes has identified Dell System Detect, a pre-installed diagnostic software program, as malware on Dell computers.

"The application known as Dell System Detect failed to validate code before downloading and running it, according to a report published last month by researcher Tom Forbes.

Click to expand...

LOL, but at least Dell has fixed that vulnerability. Now if only we could do away without bloatware, the first thing I did after buying and charging a new laptops batteries, would not be wiping it to do a clean install.

OEM software is malware. They made the correct call.