Frankly, if you’ve got untrustworthy software with that level of access and a threat model dangerous enough to throw out the hard drive, you’d probably better throw out the whole computer instead. In addition to the hard drive controller, malicious code could persist in the UEFI firmware, the graphics card firmware, or even in the Intel IME/AMD PSP subsystems.
hoghammertroll@lemm.ee
on 24 Sep 2024 06:43
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jfc…
TIL
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
on 24 Sep 2024 00:49
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Ironic
The fact that software can do that should be the news lol
Software has always been able to do this
Well normies [install] spyware and give it permissions... So we got what we got @
… what?
It’s just renamed itself.
Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.
They really decided to be annoying to the very end. Typical Kaspersky.
Super sketchy Russian software.
I’d say they wanted to be nice (although a bit creepy) but communication issues.
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Let me guess, UltraAV whitelabels Kaspersky…
No, since that would be sanctioned as well.
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I feel this is super air quotey "UltraAV" lol, i might toss the hard drive if this happened to me
Frankly, if you’ve got untrustworthy software with that level of access and a threat model dangerous enough to throw out the hard drive, you’d probably better throw out the whole computer instead. In addition to the hard drive controller, malicious code could persist in the UEFI firmware, the graphics card firmware, or even in the Intel IME/AMD PSP subsystems.
jfc…
TIL
In Soviet Russia anti-virus is pro-virus!
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