Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs

Re:Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting m... by sloshnmosh on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:30PM (#27045070)

This is why having preinstalled bloat ware on your computer is bad. I’ve seen a lot of old outdated apps on consumer grade PC’s that reinstall themselves after a factory restore that could be used by malware.

HP seems to be even worse than Dell in doing this and it’s recommended that you format the hard drive and install a clean OS

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Re:Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting m... by paulmd on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:30AM (#27046544)

if a vendor makes use of the Windows Platform Binary Table then it can use the UEFI to persist even through a format. This is how Lenovo did the superfish thing (also used by various asset-theft-tracking services) and afaik it was never removed from Windows or the UEFI, Lenovo was just shamed into not using it.

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Re:Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting m... by sloshnmosh on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:52AM (#27051496)

Excellent point! I had forgotten about the problem with this.

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