Quieting Scary Web Browser SSL Alerts Linux.Included on the start screen were Asus Webstorage, vibe Fun Center, Guide, Supernote, My Library, My Dictionary, Asus Camera and on the desktop Webstorage sync agent, Intel video drivers and Asus Live Update (more on this later). After last week when several laptop OEMs, including Lenovo once again, were caught installing highly insecure bloatware on their laptop you might hope. There were a few Asus programs installed OOB but not much other bloatware. Siemens Now Commands An Army Of Spider Robots Slashdot Now ASUS Live Update is the risk of the day.

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'My advice to anyone who purchased an Asus device: remove LiveUpdate. As the pull quote from The Inquirer below states, removing it immediately would be a very good idea. This of course leaves you wide open for man in the middle attacks, where someone posing as those update servers could feed you whatever installation files they desired. In this case it is ASUS Live Update which transmits requests for updates in plain text and does not check any software updates which come back for authenticity. ASUS Live Update Cette application, qui ne fait pas partie de Windows, est implantée dusine dans les ordinateurs du constructeur ASUS (ASUSTeK Computer, Inc.). I then proceed with a clean install + the 'useful bloatware'. It turns out that at least for my laptop there were 2 or 3 programs that I deemed useful enough to keep. Sadly you would be mistaken as once again software preinstalled on laptops is in the news. I more or less first play around with my laptop to see if any of the bloatware is actually useful. After last week when several laptop OEMs, including Lenovo once again, were caught installing highly insecure bloatware on their laptop you might hope that this week would be different.

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