Lenovo modifying Windows OS files from BIOS to install Lenovo software

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by JoshTriplett • 11 years ago

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RexRollman• 11 years ago

This is incredibly disturbing.

tartuffe78• 11 years ago

Some previous discussion in these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039306

tweakz• 11 years ago

They fixed it a while ago: http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2013

JoshTriplett• 11 years ago

Except they only acknowledge that it was a problem because they did it wrong and introduced security issues in the process, not that it was a problem to do it at all. And to the best of my knowledge, the Windows "feature" to read and execute a binary from firmware at startup still exists.

iguessthislldo• 11 years ago

That sounds like it would violate the legal contract(or license?) between Microsoft and the OEMs for Windows?

em3rgent0rdr• 11 years ago

Wow. Don't trust proprietary BIOS. Use libreboot.

dangerboysteve• 11 years ago

Lenovo is now off our desktop purchasing vendor list.

libria• 11 years ago

So Lenovo figured 6 months was enough time for the PR dust to settle on the Superfish fiasco [1] before risking customer security again.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9072424

Lenovo modifying Windows OS files from BIOS to install Lenovo software

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