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Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner
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Windows is a choice. You made it. Congratulations.
This doesn't have anything to do with Windows. This is ASUS's fault
Nothing to do with Windows? Are we sure about that? Asus is a Windows OEM that pre installs Windows and has enough privileged access to insert a surreptitious executable compiled specifically for Windows.
Yes, agreed, if they chose a *nix like OS and they had root, they could do the same thing and that would be equally shitty. It is Windows OEMs that exhibit this kind of fsckery and yes we do have a choice.
Nobody could ever execute an installer as root on a Linux system ๐
Linux squashes root over ssh. An OEM could preinstall a sudo user to get around this but that kind of BS would be their death knell as a vendor.