dropWPBT
Disables the Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) in your UEFI firmware. (by Jamesits)
Remove_IntelME_FPT
A guide for disabling Intel Management Engine using FPT on PCH SPI (by mostav02)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dropWPBT
Posts with mentions or reviews of dropWPBT.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.
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Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor
If you want a real solution
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How would you deal with a rootkit that breached the TPM and is utilizing it to keep installing a new OS?
This repo claims they can prevent it https://github.com/Jamesits/dropWPBT
- DropWPBT: Disable the Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) in Your UEFI Firmware
- Has it been proven that Lenovo laptops are not all that private and/or have ties to spying? How’s Lenovo any different from say, HP, Asus or Dell if almost all their parts probably come from the same geographic location?
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Class action lawsuit filed against Dell for false advertising over Alienware laptop's upgradeability
There is a method by which OEM's put software into the BIOS itself that Windows then runs the software from. https://github.com/Jamesits/dropWPBT
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Media Creation Tool put some bloatware on my USB.
There's no easy way to get rid of it. https://github.com/Jamesits/dropWPBT is an advanced tool to block it from being loaded, and that link also lists some alternative methods you could try.
- Disables the Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) in your firmware. This program use a non-permenant, non-destructive method to remove the table from system memory, so it should be executed every time the computer is rebooted before Windows bootloader starts. - sophisticated UEFI implant mitigation
- [LAPTOP] Huawei MateBook D 53010XGK 15" IPS 1920x1080, Ryzen 3700, 8 GB RAM (Not Expandable), 512 GB PCIe SSD ($945 - $350 = $595) [newegg.ca]
Remove_IntelME_FPT
Posts with mentions or reviews of Remove_IntelME_FPT.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-29.
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Has it been proven that Lenovo laptops are not all that private and/or have ties to spying? How’s Lenovo any different from say, HP, Asus or Dell if almost all their parts probably come from the same geographic location?
It's inside the BIOS. You can try to neutralize the ME which is a major headache. Try this. This is very much low-level but basically what me_cleaner does. Good luck!
- Lenovo Vendor Locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dropWPBT and Remove_IntelME_FPT you can also consider the following projects:
HackBGRT - Windows boot logo changer for UEFI systems
me_cleaner - Tool for partial deblobbing of Intel ME/TXE firmware images
x86_harmful - The "Intel x86 considered harmful" paper
Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
hekate - hekate - A GUI based Nintendo Switch Bootloader
lai - LAI is an interpreter for AML, the ACPI Machine Language.
sbctl - :computer: :lock: :key: Secure Boot key manager
tilck - A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel
Ventoy - A new bootable USB solution.