Re: Lenovo was essentially exploiting a rootkit on its own laptops
Thankfully, my 2 yr old Lenovo appears unaffected. When new, I had wiped & reinstalled W8 clean, and my autochk.exe still identifies itself as from Microsquish.
I hope my work's Lenovo W530 doesn't have it, but it uses IT's preinstalled W7 EE SP1 image. I doubt IT will let me do anything with it since it's not mine, but then I have other things to worry about.
quote:The vulnerability was linked to the way Lenovo utilized a Microsoft Windows mechanism in a feature found in its BIOS firmware called Lenovo Service Engine (LSE) that was installed in some Lenovo consumer PCs.
quote:Microsoft recently released updated security guidelines (see page 10 of this linked PDF) on how to best implement this Windows BIOS feature. Lenovo's use of LSE was not consistent with these new guidelines. As a result, LSE is no longer being installed on Lenovo systems. It is strongly recommended that customers update their systems with the new BIOS firmware which disables and or removes this feature.
