HP Uses FBI's Software?
Posted by hardwarehank, Sun Nov 05 10:31:40 UTC 2006
Installing windows from an OEM recovery CD has never been something I would
try, but apparently my friend is brave enough to do it. While he was
in his 9th hour of installing today, he decided to come to his senses and just
put Ubuntu back on. Lo and behold, he could not cancel the installation. He
tried CTRL-ALT-DEL, but to no avail. Then, something magical happened.
ALT-TAB produced this:
Wow. What is FBI Gui Manager? Why is it packaged with an HP Recovery disc?
I couldn’t find much information online about the specific product, but there
seemed to be some chatter about it being produced by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation themselves. I wonder if they’re remotely monitoring HP boxen.
So, if you have a default installation of Windows from HP or Compaq, or have
reinstalled using the recovery discs, you should switch to Linux so you aren’t
spied upon.
UPDATE: After a while, it had a fatal error, and he had to restart anyway. The error read
Current task RUNFBI failed.
Weird…
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March 13, 2007 @ 12:50 PM
Same thing happened to me - I did not have a fatal error and it is on my system. I am being spied on?
August 05, 2007 @ 09:10 PM
its not FBI as in federal. Its File Based Installer
December 04, 2008 @ 05:38 PM
JK, you’re an idiot