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Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner(www.windowslatest.com)

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dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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What does it do with Linux?

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u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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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.

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

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