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Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

From the article:

Even worse, the malware-looking Christmas wreath is linked to a process called “Christmas.exe.”

So the process was actually called that. It popped up on my machine this morning and I immediately started scanning the whole system for malware and searching to see if anyone else had this problem.

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago

Jesus Christ what the fuck.