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Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner (www.windowslatest.com)
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[โ€“] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The ASUS UEFI firmware exposes an ACPI table to Windows 10, called "WPBT" or "Windows Platform Binary Table". WPBT is used in the pre-built OEM industry, and is referred to as "the Vendor's Rootkit." Put simply, it is a script that makes Windows copy data from the BIOS to the System32 folder on the machine and execute it during Windows startup - every single time the system is booted.

So, sounds like a Windows-specific ~~vulnerability~~ feature.

[โ€“] Grabthar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Make a read only file/folder with the same name and the script should fail. But that is horseshit.