You wonder why people still go through the pain.
Microsoft finds malware on new computers in China | Nation & World | The Seattle Times
This is one of the downsides of pre-installed software with no install disk.
I’m sure the install disk would be the pirated version as well.
What! you mean secure boot isn’t secure!?! but … but… my Windows 8 machine has secure boot:’(
Isn’t amazing how no matter what MSFT does to secure their **** it’s not?
On 09/14/2012 10:36 AM, chief sealth wrote:
>
> You wonder why people still go through the pain.
>
> ‘Microsoft finds malware on new computers in China | Nation & World |
> The Seattle Times’ (http://tinyurl.com/935hgpe)
>
>
Because they’ve never heard of Linux I suppose. Sad…
–
Regards
swerdna
On 2012-09-14 06:56, Sagemta wrote:
>
> What! you mean secure boot isn’t secure!?! but … but… my Windows 8
> machine has secure boot:’(
>
> Isn’t amazing how no matter what MSFT does to secure their **** it’s
> not?
Not amazing at all. These computers were all using illegal copies of WIndows, and some included
a virus.
The secure boot system only protects the user if all the chain is trustworthy, any company is
able to create faked copies with secure boot if they so wish.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On 2012-09-14 07:57, swerdna wrote:
> On 09/14/2012 10:36 AM, chief sealth wrote:
>>
>> You wonder why people still go through the pain.
>>
>> ‘Microsoft finds malware on new computers in China | Nation & World |
>> The Seattle Times’ (http://tinyurl.com/935hgpe)
>>
>>
> Because they’ve never heard of Linux I suppose. Sad…
No, they can sell you computers with Linux preinstalled and all sort of malware also installed.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Then you just destroy the drive with dd and install openSUSE. 
On 2012-09-14 19:06, nightwishfan wrote:
>
> Then you just destroy the drive with dd and install openSUSE.
Ah, of course, absolutely. But if the malware is in the bios, you are fried :-p
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)