Microsoft steps in after LG monitors were found auto-installing apps with McAfee ads

[carrymeplz]

Yet another reason to get off Windows.

MS is doing a bang up job lately (even for them).

I just got tired of being spied on and Windows settings getting reset all the time for no reason and switched to Linux. The Linux of today is NOT like the Linux from 10+ years ago. It can run HUGE games and so many apps and programs already have a Linux version. Plus, most stuff I use is on the web

 

[BadThad]

As someone who had McAfee's Enterprise products forced upon my corporate laptop for more than 20 years I can say with the utmost confidence that their products are over bloated trash. The Endpoint Security product was basically swiss cheese it was so full of holes that even the most junior network engineer could exploit. Then there is the drive encryption product that would basically deteriorate the partition of the drive after about 150 boots. Pure unadulterated trash product. Forcing installs like LG did is the only way they can make a sale because anyone with any history of their product already knows its trash. (Yes, I have strong feelings about this software trash.)

Here, here! Same, it toasted PC's left and right. We had many computers that absolutely couldn't even run it. GARBAGE!

 

[Thatsdisgusting]

NOPE.

F-ing lie

 

[ZedRM]

Fellow Techspot users, the ignore function exists for a reason.
Endymio is on mine.
Only a thought.

NOPE.

F-ing lie

So no real fix then?

 

[Thatsdisgusting]

Fellow Techspot users, the ignore function exists for a reason.
Endymio is on mine.
Only a thought.
So no real fix then?

We'll see. At least that thing still pending in the update list and no "unintended" installs so far, but I guess it's due to strict gpedit policies.

 

[ZedRM]

We'll see. At least that thing still pending in the update list and no "unintended" installs so far, but I guess it's due to strict gpedit policies.

If Microsoft really wanted to impress people, they would include an option called "Never download this update and hide permanently."

 

[Win7user]

This is exactly why I use either Major Geeks, or SourceForge to install application or software programs. Been using them both for a couple of decades and no BS sneaky software installs. And, yes I know this story is about a new monitor installing this software that people are unaware of.

 

[BadThad]

If Microsoft really wanted to impress people, they would include an option called "Never download this update and hide permanently."

I've been saying that for DECADES! lmao

 

[Watzupken]

LG abused the feature, but Microsoft designed a system in which connecting a peripheral can silently install a difficult-to-remove Store app. The ad disappearing fixes the symptom, not the astonishingly bad trust model.

This is exactly right. Basically, the conditions in Microsoft Windows allows a peripheral provider to install more than just a basic display driver, and to me, I am thinking what other things can they quietly install besides Mcafee.

Sometimes I question if MCafee is really such a popular anti-virus software, or they are "popular" because they are pre-installed in almost all Windows laptop that I used. And as you can tell, they are shadily installing themselves on unsuspecting victims. As these free 1 year deadline looms, I recall they will keep spamming you to subscribe very aggressively.

 

[wiyosaya]

First, learn how both logic and journalism work: the one making the claim carries the burden of proof, not those disputing it.

Debunking involves proving something wrong. Your simply saying what was said is wrong is not debunking. Take, for example, Snopes. They debunk prove disproving what they are debunking.

Again, you've added nothing to the but an unproven statement which is no better than the journalism you think you claim to be debunking.

Secondly, I gave my evidence: so many consumers are paying to use McAfee products that they're the second largest firm globally in the consumer cybersecurity sector. That alone is proof enough.

As Cyndi Lauper said, "Money isn't everything." Lots of people will pay for something simply because they are ignorant.

 

[Endymio]

Debunking involves proving something wrong. Your simply saying what was said is wrong is not debunking.

Right. My sales figures for McAfee are what debunked his claim.

Take, for example, Snopes. They debunk prove disproving [sic] what they are debunking.

You mean the same Snopes that spent years telling us Hunter's laptop was fake, Ashley Biden's diary a myth, and Covid was "scientifically proven" to have not come from a lab release?

 

[BadThad]

This is exactly right. Basically, the conditions in Microsoft Windows allows a peripheral provider to install more than just a basic display driver, and to me, I am thinking what other things can they quietly install besides Mcafee.

Sometimes I question if MCafee is really such a popular anti-virus software, or they are "popular" because they are pre-installed in almost all Windows laptop that I used. And as you can tell, they are shadily installing themselves on unsuspecting victims. As these free 1 year deadline looms, I recall they will keep spamming you to subscribe very aggressively.

McAfee was and is still a virus itself for sucking down resources at more frantic rate than an actual virus.