Thoughts 10 Oct 2008 08:11 am

ASUS Ships Secret Information

Just a note in case you missed the Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Blog about it.

It seems that some of the laptop recovery DVDs from ASUS contain not only the OS and drivers, but extra bonus material.

This material includes, among other things:

  • A key cracker that is credited to “Freddy Cruger”.
  • M$ eyes only documents intended for pc manufacturers.
  • A directory called “Crack” that appears to contain serial numbers for other software packages.
  • And most importantly: A PowerPoint presentation that details “major problems” identified by ASUS, including application compatibility issues.

    • If you have a fairly recently acquired ASUS laptop you might want to explore your recovery disk. —It could be more interesting than it seems at first glance.

    To me it sounds like someone burned a personal copy of the recovery disk and added the tools and data they felt they might need and it somehow got loose.

    Either that or someone got pissed and gave the company a computer geek’s one finger salute.

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