ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP with no verification

Re:ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP with no ve... by Bromskloss on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:09AM (#11841025)

Doesn't it affect only those who run Windows with this ASUS LiveUpdate thing installed?

But perhaps you meant that you must now, as a protest, shun ASUS products. I can sympathise with that.

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Re:ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP with no ve... by Nullabillity on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:41AM (#11841192)

Yup. The standard procedure that applies to pretty much any prebuilt computer. If you need to run the stock OS, reformat with the OS vendor's image ASAP, and make sure to only install the minimal driver packages from the hw vendor afterwards.

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Re:ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP with no ve... by vvanders on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:10AM (#11841358)

Thankfully it's trivial to uninstall. My UX390UA didn't have it installed(can't remember if I manually uninstalled it before) and took two seconds to uninstall from second one.

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Re:ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP with no ve... by philliphaydon on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:53AM (#11841245)

My reason for not buying one is because the screen res is small :(

I usually reformat them on arrival anyway.

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Re:ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP with no ve... by Bromskloss on Sunday June 05, 2016 @01:19PM (#11841966)

Is the screen matte or glossy?

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