I suprised it took this long. I bought a new motherboard in 2023 and discovered that the bios phones home and can patch the bios before the OS loads and that just was a big NOPE for me and I disabled it.
yes, but IDK what it’s called off the top of my head. I got suspicious after noticing firewall logs to asus before the spamming Microsoft logs. the setting also lets the bios talk to the os by providing drivers during the Windows oobe, it will inject the Asus software like it’s preinstalled like OEM supplied. pissed me off because I have a iso of windows from ma visual studio download that’s basically the latest widows patched.i was like …blank slate, should just be Microsoft wtf is Asus junk software doing there?!
I suprised it took this long. I bought a new motherboard in 2023 and discovered that the bios phones home and can patch the bios before the OS loads and that just was a big NOPE for me and I disabled it.
Was that a specific bios/uefi setting(s)?
yes, but IDK what it’s called off the top of my head. I got suspicious after noticing firewall logs to asus before the spamming Microsoft logs. the setting also lets the bios talk to the os by providing drivers during the Windows oobe, it will inject the Asus software like it’s preinstalled like OEM supplied. pissed me off because I have a iso of windows from ma visual studio download that’s basically the latest widows patched.i was like …blank slate, should just be Microsoft wtf is Asus junk software doing there?!