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Because any self-respecting developer will reformat and reinstall Windows or ideally Linux and problem solved, no spyware.



Not when they’re doing it at bios level, formatting is useless.


Yep, here's a nice summary of that situation that someone made on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SuggestALaptop/comments/3gxoh9/psa_...


That BIOS level requires the operating system to execute certain ACPI table as a Windows executable.




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