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  • Thanks for the heads-up!

    Do you think we are looking at UEFI or Intel ME rootkit here?

    I had an interesting case of a five-year-old laptop that I know they had previously used Ventoy on. After repairing the hardware and clean Win10 install, the BIOS update software (Windows executable) reported that the BIOS update was not necessary, even though it shows as several versions behind what’s available on HP’s website.

    My expertise is mainly in hardware It’s my understanding that with UEFI, we can’t simply dump the BIOS with something like an SPI programmer and compare to a fresh BIOS image (which I don’t have either because it’s now rolled into a proprietary Win exe from HP anyway).