Re:Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk'
by kbenson on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @12:19PM
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I think "from scratch" is meant to imply a virginal source of windows, not the Lenovo supplied version.
Re:Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk'
by IanDrake on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @12:36PM
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Killing all disk partitions and starting over gives you a clean MS Windows install with no junk.
For those who don't know how, buy only "Signature Edition" PCs.
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/category...
Re:Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk'
by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @12:37PM
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> That will usually "restore" the crap as well.
Depends. Some ship drivers and such on a separate disc, others don't.
That will usually "restore" the crap as well.
You might be better off installing a Free Software operating system from scratch. (e.g. OpenBSD for the security fanatics, or any other *BSD, or Solaris, or some Linux distro.)
Even better: Buy a laptop without any operating system. However, in some cases this may make the laptop more expensive. (e.g. what if Lenovo gets paid by crap providers for pre-installing?)