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Lenovo demonstrates BIOS malware

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http://www.fudzilla.com/news/38466-lenovo-caught-reinstalling-bloatware

Basically, before booting Windows, the Lenovo Service Engine (LSE) built into the laptop's firmware replaces Microsoft's copy of autochk.exe with Lenovo's version. Lenovo's version then ensures that LenovoUpdate.exe and LenovoCheck.exe are present in Windows' system32 directory, with full administrative rights.
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One more reason to build it yourself.
 
No reason to have third party assemblers messing about within firmware. Same goes for Dell molesting LSI firmware to slow down arrays with "uncertified" hard drive models. Nothing good ever comes from it.
 
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