It’s really irritating when you set up a new system and it begins downloading and installing the motherboard vendor’s software without your permission or prompting. This can happen with a lot of different motherboard vendors, but there are secure ways and insecure ways to go about it, and Gigabyte seems to have chosen poorly.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Gigabyte Firmware Exposes Millions Of Motherboards To Backdoor Hacking Threat