The ugly part is this BIOS hack prevents you from reinstalling the microsoft windows.
So users are stuck with whatever lenovo decides to add, and in the past that has included a fair bit of not just crapware, but actually malware which leaves your system vulnerable from attack.
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Date: 2016-09-22 05:17 am (UTC)So users are stuck with whatever lenovo decides to add, and in the past that has included a fair bit of not just crapware, but actually malware which leaves your system vulnerable from attack.