For the last several weeks, multiple Reddit users have reported that their LG monitors had surreptitiously added an app to their PC through an automatic patch via Windows Update.

LG monitors silently install McAfee adware via Windows Update without consent. Here is how to remove it and block future auto-installs.

The app, LG Monitor App Installer, installs itself through a Windows Update alongside monitor driver updates. LG Monitor App Installer then pushes ads for a 30-day free trial for McAfee, as well as ...

Following user outcry and pressure from Microsoft, LG has agreed to stop showing McAfee pop-up spam downloaded from its monitors.

Microsoft kills McAfee ad served via LG monitor app in Windows 11 — but there are wider problems to deal with in Windows ...

After an investigation and user outcry, Microsoft says it asked LG to disable a McAfee pop-up that auto-installed from its monitors. So where's the line on acceptable advertising in Windows?

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LG is angering monitor buyers, at least in the US. Windows downloads an app without asking that displays annoying ads.

LG is hardly the only brand to serve ads in internet-connected products. Amazon Echo Show devices are notorious for showing ads that can't be deactivated, and Samsung faced backlash recently for ...

LG monitors quietly installed an app that showed a pop-up ad for McAfee software, an example of how third-party devices can leverage Windows to install bloatware and adware.

Mac user. I don't know if it's a Korean thing or if other Western brands do that. I have bought for work a Samsung 4K screen. The thing tries to behave like a TV and is constantly popping up "Gaming ...