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Yet Another Compromising Preinstalled "Glitch" In Lenovo Laptops

Posted by timothy on from the hey-stop-catching-us! dept.

New submitter execthis writes: Japanese broadcaster NHK is reporting that yet another privacy/security-compromising "glitch" has been found to exist in preinstalled software on Lenovo laptops. The article states that the glitch was found in Spring and that in late July Lenovo began releasing a program to uninstall the difficult-to-remove software. The article does not specify, but it could be referring to a BIOS utility called Lenovo Service Engine (LSE) for which Lenovo has released a security advisory with links to removal tools for various models.

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  1. Shitty article by buckfeta2014 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why even post this article. It's 2 lines. "Oh we found something", well good for you, how about telling us what you actually found?

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  2. Re: Who would have thought there was more? by RoverDaddy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The BIOS isn't installing apps to the hard drive (give it time?) As AC indicates this is a Windows-only issue. the BIOS -holds- an application that Windows helpfully detects and installs into itself on behalf of the hardware. A Linux system will totally ignore the app (which is Windows-specific anyway!!) sitting in the BIOS.

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