Top
Best
New

Posted by baranul 4 days ago

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent(videocardz.com)
1217 points | 635 commentspage 9
hangrybear666 4 days ago|
This should not only be illegal in the EU but for the entire world. Malware level shit
bnfcl 3 days ago||
The enshittification just keeps getting worse, where will it end?
inventor7777 4 days ago||
Seems like every day I don't use Windows, the less I miss it lol
barelysapient 3 days ago||
Another reason to avoid windows.
ralphlarry 4 days ago||
[dead]
surcap526 3 days ago||
[dead]
guesswho_ 4 days ago||
[dead]
CurbStomper 4 days ago||
[dead]
adamtaylor_13 4 days ago|
This is an excellent use of agentic AI, btw. Fire Claude up and say, "Remove LG malware and mcafee from this computer. Make regex changes so it can't be installed again."

My current windows 10 install is cleaner than any other windows machine I've ever owned due to using Claude to deep dive and rip stuff out.

someothherguyy 4 days ago||
> excellent use of agentic AI

you run claude code unsanboxed on your machine and give it privileged access?

adamtaylor_13 4 days ago|||
On my windows machine I do. Not on my important machines.
frollogaston 3 days ago||||
At least it might do a better job than Gemini when I told it to fix the drivers in Linux
killix 4 days ago|||
[flagged]
orbital-decay 4 days ago|||
Giving the data to Anthropic instead of giving it to LG and McAffee, fascinating
bcraven 4 days ago|||
"Prevent this software having unfettered access to your machine by giving some other software unfettered access to your machine"
adamtaylor_13 4 days ago||
That's a hot-take, but yeah. Something like that.

Probably more like, "Prevent adversarially installed software from having unfettered access to your machine by giving software you specifically requested unfettered access to your machine."

If it makes you feel safer, you can just tell it to give you the commands run them yourself. The point is, I'm not a Windows sysadmin so idk how to do stuff like this--claude does.

frollogaston 3 days ago|||
Yeah it's reasonable to trust Claude more than whatever the heck LG shipped