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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner

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Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

The Christmas.exe in Task Manager and the Christmas theme wreath banner that covers half of your screen on Windows 11 are not malware.

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Most computers firmware can store a Windows executable. Microsoft pushed for an addition to the ACPI tables called WPBT. That stores a Windows exectuable in the firmware. It is of course totally used for the intended purpose…

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