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DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/technology@piefed.social

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LG recently forced upon us an app install loaded with McAfee adware through a Windows update. We found that this has been happening to tons of users, made worse by LG's shady history with TVs that instruct buyers to inform house visitors of third-party microphones in their living room. At no point in the adware or application install did LG or Microsoft ask us for consent or permission to install the software and enable its various permissions. On monitors ranging 1 day old in our office to 3 years old, we've been able to replicate these issues -- including on the LG 34GX900A-B that we just bought (and have now returned, following spyware concerns).

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[–] Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is this an windows only issue? They only tested it on one OS. My LGs on my Bazzite system haven't done this. Anyone else on not windows amd have LG seen any random installs?

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's installed through Windows's automatic driver installation system; LG just provides this stuff as a driver package. The monitors themselves can't install anything.

[–] ivan@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

My ASUS laptop has this driver utility that gets installed along with Windows automatically that shows McAfee antivirus ads.

Almost got a heart attack first time, thought I got virus on clean install already. Turns out it’s just ASUS showing me ads on laptop I bought from them.