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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:17 pm Post subject: Millions of PCs Affected by Mysterious Computrace Backdoor |
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Nearly every PC has an anti-theft product called Computrace embedded in its BIOS PCI Optional ROM or its unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI). Computrace is a legitimate, trusted application developed by Absolute Software. However, it often runs without user-consent, persistently activates itself at system boot, and can ...read more |
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