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by JdeBP 1122 days ago
The local fix is, reportedly, to delete the malware signature file that is breaking ASUS's proprietary malware scanner.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35984706

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35984725

The service fix is for ASUS to make a malware scanner that doesn't have such bad behaviour in the case of a signature file that it cannot process, and to not use a logging mechanism that we knew had this flaw in the 1980s, and improved upon in the 1990s. (-: