Lenovo Software Update Stealthily Installs Adware

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 25, 2009 @06:34AM 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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Re:Wait... by TommydCat · 2009-06-25 06:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

Funny, but this is a serious credibility whack as their products are considered top notch for business. They'll find out when they interfere with business being done, it's a long fall down...
Somehow I think someone in management is busy whacking the undo button as furiously as possible as the media exposure rises.

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