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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. BAH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Here http://78cb4d4c.thatsprime.com/

  2. Re:No kidding! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    just format the drive and install your favorite Linux or *BSD - that and many more problems solved!!

    it just aint IBM any more..

    WTF DO YOU EXPECT - ITS WINDOWS?!?!