Anyone knows how I can turn this off ? 
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The only persistence i know is tails storage.. 👀
Funny enough, this would affect you with TAILS, too. ;)
Kill it with fire aka format the disk and put some Linux on it.
I’m running Ubuntu on it
🤢 ... guess that's why I'm not using Ubuntu but Debian.
I see, it's a rootkit. Yeah, well, great ... https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/53698/detecting-and-removing-absolute-persistence-technology
Damn! I guess then I just have to buy another one laptop.
Fuck You! You led me into some rabbit hole there ... Why does your rootkit advertise its presence? Mine apparently does not. Or is it plural "do not"? 🙄
Sir I have no idea 😂 I got this one as a gift, and what I only done is wiped out and installed Ubuntu
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Yes. First you need at least five pound sledge hammer...
Check of it only opens a backdoor to windows which these rootkits usually do. My ThinkPad has a rootkit like this permanently activated but it is unable to access Linux. Arch in my case. By the way.
Yeah that’s on thinkpad as well. Linux blocks the access or you manually did it ?
You can't flash it or block it but it operates via a service it opens in Windows which doesn't work with Linux. At least Computrace on the Carbon X2 can't.
I bought this used laptop used from a company that went under, the IT of the company has the key to remote deactivate the rootkit but all that documentation. I couldn't care less tbh, there will never be a windows system again on this device.
Got it, so then I shouldn’t care about it.
Looks like Absolute Persistence is only active through Windows as well, like Computrace. Ijust searched for it but couldn't find documentation of it being able to operate through Linux. Have a look for yourself to make sure and if you can't find anything, there's no need to worry.
It can be installed on linux manually, but the persistence doesn’t work last I checked though.
Old but good info: https://securelist.com/absolute-computrace-revisited/58278/
Most likely Computrace isn't even able to write anything to btrfs or ext4, it's ntfs & fat native
