The Christmas.exe in Task Manager and the Christmas theme wreath banner that covers half of your screen on Windows 11 are not malware.
  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    181·
    2 days ago

    I think the title indicates that it’s like the malware known as “Christmas.exe”.

    Edit: I have too much faith in humanity…

    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      722·
      2 days ago

      The title is pushing the narrative that “real companies” doing hostile bullshit isn’t “real malware”.

      When companies ship malware, it should be called malware.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      29·
      2 days ago

      From the article:

      Even worse, the malware-looking Christmas wreath is linked to a process called “Christmas.exe.”

      So the process was actually called that. It popped up on my machine this morning and I immediately started scanning the whole system for malware and searching to see if anyone else had this problem.