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Re:Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into laptops by hiding ... by ndidi on Saturday September 14, 2019 @12:51PM (#20972025)
The article mentions how Windows reads an ACPI table, looks for a specific executable file, and willingly runs it. It's not the BIOS forcing anything to happen, Windows goes out of its way to look for an .exe that is bundled in the BIOS and then happily runs it.
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