Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models

• Verat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Didn’t the superfish certificate install itself from UEFI even if you used your own windows image?

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  • tankplanker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Really? Where you read that?

    What I remember it was an app you could uninstall and then you had to clean up the certificate install. It was part of the factory image and would get installed as part of that. Lenovo provided instructions to remove it.

    But again, I don’t use factory images or windows.

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    • Verat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Looking it up I cant seem to find it, so I might be wrong. It may not have been lenovo but I remember news years ago about some OEM getting caught doing that.

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      • tankplanker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah I am pretty certain you are tbh, I think you mixing up uefi certificate updates with root kits that are part of the factory image or other installed bloatware from the manufacturer.

        Now if you were talking about vpro or other low level management I could believe it, but thats intel and avoidable…

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