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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. I've run into this on my S10 by Skuld-Chan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have an S10 ideapad - and yeah the "don't show this ad again" checkbox doesn't work. Whats worse is this app has never actually worked for the S10.

    Probably last Lenovo laptop I buy (and I've had several all the way back when they were badged IBM machines).

  2. Re:How is adware formed? by davidsinn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is that even English?

  3. Re:Wait... by datapharmer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just out of curiosity what are the advantages of the dc7900 over the dx7500 in your experience? I'm trying to get our business off the cheapo dx2300 and need something that can reasonably be expected to last 5 years and doesn't break the bank for a 60 PC shop.

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