ASUS Armoury Crate automatically installs software without user knowing...

[MagicBoy]

Naughty naughty ASUS are using a Windows feature intended for anti-theft solutions to install drivers and bloatware without user intervention...

https://www.techpowerup.com/248827/...-push-software-into-your-windows-installation

 

[MagicBoy]

The technology has been around for 10+ years. Anti-theft solutions like CompuTrace (available on ThinkPads and similar corporate laptops) use it.

What ASUS are doing is misuse.