CHINASIA ADMITS TOTAL ASIAN SECURITY TAKEOVER: ASUS Z390 Motherboards Automatically Push ASIAN MILITARY Software into Your Windows Installation, YOU CANNOT TURN IT OFF. It can active though the rest of the machine is not on any network (it's hidden in
YOU CAN TURN IT OFF LIKE YOU CAN TURN OFF WINDOWS 10 UPGRADE
(you cannot)
https://www.techpowerup.com/248827/asus-z390-motherboards-automatically-push-software-into-your-windows-installation
it's yet another asian run "PC REVIEW" website pushing asian electronics as superior and continually saying apple and intel is no good (total lies)
This process happens in complete network-isolation (i.e. the machine has no Internet or LAN access).
"These files could not have come from either our Windows image or the network, leaving the motherboard's 16-megabyte UEFI BIOS as the only suspect. The files themselves, which total around 3.6 MB in size, appear harmless, and belong to an ASUS-made program called "ASUS Armoury Crate." This program fetches the latest drivers for your hardware from ASUS servers, and installs them for you in an automated process with little user-intervention."