Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent

• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What happens is that when you connect a Logitech mouse or keyboard to a Windows 7/10/11 machine for the first time, Windows Update doesn’t just download a driver (a .inf file) but also Logitech Download Assistant (a .dll file) and runs it.

  You will then get a branded popup in the system tray prompting you to download the actual control software.

  The LDA software is set to always run in the background, it also doesn’t show up in add/remove programs, and is rather annoying to get rid of.

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  • Ghoelian@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Huh, I always thought windows just had some dumb mechanism that let random USB devices show a popup or something, but this is even more stupid.

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