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Connecting an LG Monitor to a Windows PC Trigger the Silent, Unprompted Installation of Adware
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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How, though?
Its because of Windows, right?
The monitor didnt insert malware?
Monitor requests Windows OS to install monitor company's software, Windows installs whatever they want.
Not quite, Windows detects the monitor being attached and goes "Oh? What software goes with this?" and downloads the package provided by LG.
The monitor doesn't say "Hey, I want you to download this", Windows does that on it's own.
Wait, since when does Windows install apps and not just device drivers?!
Apps being bundled with drivers is not that new. I swore off Razer hardware years ago because their fucking keyboard decided to install a bloated app alongside it - during OS installation as well! A blocking installer, fucked up my unattended install.
Okay that's a funny one tho, microsoft makes a bad features and can't even code it properly lmaoo
Pretty sure windows has supported installing drivers that include program installs since windows 7. Razor mice also do the same thing where it auto installs the control software.
Exactly the problem!
This exchange is very polite, I think the truth is closer to an encounter with the Borg.
The others are right, but it is possible for hardware to have installation software embedded. It's not as common now, but consumer Dell printers about 10 years ago (and probably others, but that's what I ran into) had drivers embedded in an internal flash ROM. You switched between using the printer as a flash drive and accessing the printer directly using the buttons on the front of the printer.
Many modern motherboards have that built in to install the manufacturer's software, which in turn would download the latest BIOS drivers, etc. for that board.
Usually enabled by default, and after installing once, the setting in the BIOS gets disabled so it doesn't prompt to reinstall on every boot.
My brand new Asrock X870E board I installed last week did that.
I get why they do it, but I also hate it.