I just never gave my TV access to the internet. Are we now not supposed to give our monitors access to our PCs?
Been on Linux (Mint) for 2 years after a lifetime of Windows (starting with 3.1.) No regerts.
The monitor isn’t doing anything, it’s Windows doing this shit. The monitor just says to the PC “Hi, I’m an LG monitor, model number XYZ”. Every modern monitor does this. Windows then phones home and downloads a driver package for the monitor based on the brand and model, which includes this malware.
This is on both Microsoft for allowing this shit, and on LG for abusing the system.
Then again, if you’re still using Windows in 2026 you kinda deserve it.
This would have been caught sooner if the OS itself was not infested with ads. You pay how much to get inundated with distracting corporate propaganda? In the Start Menu?
Ban advertising entirely. Brain-poisoning moral hazard of a business model.
malware fucking behavior
remember when society hated spyware?
This is adware.
Windows is spyware.
Understood.
Never buy LG, treat the brand as though it’s already dead.
Also avoid Microsoft for not acting upon this known abuse vector.
Go Linux and own your PC again.
But Microsoft knew about this problem for years. If anyone thinks lg isn’t paying MS to leave the back door open you are being naive.
You could tell me Microsoft uses indeginous tribespeople on human-sized hamster wheels for electricity and I’d see it as morally in their wheelhouse.
So you’re saying you didn’t know this program was already operational??? But it’s prisoners not tribespeople. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna48144469
I forgot about that horror against humanity for a bit.
I think there’s an episode of Black Mirror where the only jobs available are content creator and generating electricity on a treadmill.
No problem.
As a senior I just feel it’s my job to make sure we don’t forget.
Wait till people notice the backdoor that Lenovo loads onto laptops via Windows Updates posing it as a driver
I know this one.
https://cybersecuritynews.com/lenovo-driver-terminate-edr-processes/
So in other words: don’t use LG products, also don’t ever use any Microsoft products but we already knew that
I wonder what Windows Update policy actually is.
Someone must look at the drivers vendors send them. If LG tells Microsoft “yes, that’s correct, all these old monitors now need this bundle function; it’s essential” and it doesn’t technically include malware… is there any way the Microsoft driver team can say “no?” I bet not.
That’s messed up. But also, whoever allowed this to ship probably had no choice.
