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This happened with my LG “dumb” monitor!
2020 35WN65C. Nothing smart about it, yet I got a “install Mcafee” popup out of nowhere, to my utter horror.
Well. I’ll never buy another LG display as long as I live. Great marketing there, LG.
It was a good reminder though. Been too long since I took a chainsaw to my Windows partition.
Look at that. It’s purge o’clock.
Serious a McAfee pop up oh no. You know there are false positives with anti virus espically since now they are looking for behaviours and not signatures.
I mean it was a popup to install Mcafee. The LG monitor driver loaded adware; I don’t run Mcafee on Windows.
I traced it, and I know it was the monitor driver that did it. Thankfully. But I feared it was more serious malware masquerading as a Mcafee installer.
So it installed it to windows? Not the monitor itself? I would be impressed if they pushed ads into the firmware to overlay like the monitor controls. As it is, sounds like its as much Microslop's fault as LG.
Yes, it installs to Windows.
Nah it didn't change the monitor or do anything to it. Windows Update just installs the adware when it sees the monitor's ID.
This has been going on forever with other components, like "gaming" motherboards, laptops and mice. But this is interesting because they retroactively did it to my plain-looking 2020 monitor. And Microsoft is in an awkward position here, as the manufacturer can claim these blobs are absolutely necessary to run the hardware.