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Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 112 points 2 years ago (28 children)

This is why I boycott Logitech, they started pushing the Logitech Download Assistant through Windows Update as soon as you connect a Logitech mouse/keyboard.

It autoruns not only when it is first installed but on every startup.

It is rather annoying to try and uninstall it, I don't get why there has been so little backlash against this....

Microsoft permitting this is devaluing Windows Update, the driver (.inf) should be installed automatically, any executable file that WU wants to download and run on your computer should just bring up a small Windows notification saying something like this:

The device you just installed requests to download and run the following program from Windows Update:

Logitech Download Assistant

Will you approve or reject this request? Approve/Reject

It is just terrible that this is permitted

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I never knew about this (using Linux) but when I plugged my mouse onto a friend's laptop and suddenly a big banner animated onscreen, my heart sank lol. No idea how this works but it was pretty unexpected.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    This is why I boycott Logitech

    You should boycott Microsoft instead. As you say, they're the ones permitting it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    I would if I could, but I work with Windows and if I migrate to Linux at home, my skills in Windows would dimminish

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  • [+] -13 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    "skills in windows" is a hilarious thing to type. Merry Christmas.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Sigh, why, why do you do feel the need to put other's down over something as irrelevant as an operating system?

    But since Windows require zero skills, then even you may stand a chance to solve the following tasks that I have had to deal with within Windows.

    1. List all users in the local admin group of all workstations, if a group is part of the local admin group, expand it and list individual users, oh and some users/groups are still on an old domain.
    2. Whitelist a new USB device in GPO.
    3. Make a report of all computers in the organization, get the current system model number, memory, storage space, free storage space, check weather or not the computer is ready for Windows 11, sort the list by department and primary user.
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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    These weirdos have Linux as their entire identity and it’s become all consuming for some of them.

    I just block anyone who is shilling Linux too much as it gets boring quickly, and I use Linux myself as of recently but it isn’t all that amazing and it requires a good amount of configuration, contrary to what people on here will tell you.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm in IT too. My experience is that if you use Linux at home and Windows at work you just end up skilled at both. At one point I was even using a Macbook at work (wouldn't have even been a consideration if WSL was just a little better), using a Windows jump server or a VM for my Windows-y ops, and I became skilled at all 3 OS's.

    All of that is to say that your skill won't decrease if Windows is still being used, especially if you're using it in a professional context.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    This is really the wrong sub thread to discuss this, this was my reply to someone laughing at the concept of Windows skills.

    As for you comment, I am glad that it works like that for you, it doesn't for me.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Cannot confirm, I have a g903, paired mouse pad, and their brio webcam. I only have the G Hub, which I installed manually. Maybe they stopped this behavior?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I had windows update try to brick the BIOS on my Lenovo workstation recently. I can't believe Microsoft and manufacturers do this kind of shit. Luckily my workstation had dual BIOS so I could recover it. Between that and the fact that lenovo manufacturer locks their processors I would have waited until I could afford a supermicro had I known.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That shits on Lenovo because I never had an issue with Microsoft updating the UEFI of HP machines of our clients.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/hp-bricks-probook-laptops-with-bad-bios-many-users-face-black-screen-after-windows-includes-firmware-in-automatic-updates

    I'm not trying to protect lenovo. I think they are a shit company now, and I should have some my research better before buying my computer, but they aren't the only ones doing this. Anyone who's done BIOS updates knows that shouldn't be done automatically, but manufacturers and Microsoft seem to think it's a good idea to push it through automatic updates.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Especially when there's a chance that the bios update resets the tpm and if the user has enabled bitlocker (automatically done in background without user consent on windows 11 if using a Microsoft account) then they need to type the decryption key to boot again.

    Happened twice on my laptop

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