rochegmr
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
along_the_road@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 days ago

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

videocardz.com

external-link
message-square
22
link
fedilink
143
external-link

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

videocardz.com

along_the_road@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 days ago
message-square
22
link
fedilink
LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent - VideoCardz.com
videocardz.com
external-link
Connecting some LG monitors to a Windows PC may automatically install software that promotes McAfee subscriptions.
  • Helix 🧬@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    2 days ago

    tbf LG monitors are quite good hardware, but I’ve been buying Dell the last 10 years and never had issues.

    • passenger@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 day ago

      From the same article: Dell also uses Windows Update to deliver Alienware Command Center

    • const_void@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      Dell uses LG panels

      • Helix 🧬@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 day ago

        Even better!

Technology@beehaw.org

technology@beehaw.org

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@beehaw.org

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

  • Free and Open Source Software
  • Programming
  • Operating Systems

This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 202 users / day
  • 1.04K users / week
  • 1.98K users / month
  • 5.69K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 43.3K subscribers
  • 3.3K Posts
  • 35.1K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Chris Remington@beehaw.org
  • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.org
  • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org
  • gyrfalcon@beehaw.org
  • rs5th@beehaw.org
  • coldredlight@beehaw.org
  • Leigh@beehaw.org
  • TheRtRevKaiser@kbin.social
  • BE: 0.19.19
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org