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Lenovo Software Update Stealthily Installs Adware

Posted by timothy on from the if-goodwill-means-absolutely-nothing-to-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A recent Lenovo automatic software update has the great feature of displaying annoying pop-up ads for Lenovo products. What's worse, it appears that many users are unable to turn the advertisement 'feature' off, subjecting them to pop-ups every couple of hours. Gee guys, a note about your 20% off sale in my e-mail wouldn't have bothered me that much, but you really had to pop up over top of my PowerPoint slides? I'm sure that all of my office colleagues will be running to order ThinkPads ..."

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  1. Wait... by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    It hid some guy's PowerPoint presentation? I'd consider that a feature not a bug.

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  2. Hmmm. by y_axis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Annoying ad pop-up or Death by PowerPoint? Nope. Can't decide.

  3. compatibility by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if it's compatible with the rootkit that Sony so kindly installed for me?