Samsung has been caught installing Malware on Windows Laptops
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So previously it was Lenovo with their slew of MiM systems, bloatware that was clearly just adware among other issues (Superfish).
Now Samsung has been caught doing something just as bad, disabling Windows Update to force you to use their Updater to install updates directly from them. Disabling the software doesn't address the issue, you have to completely remove it in order to get updates directly from Microsoft.
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Link takes us to an old Lenovo piece.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/samsung-promises-to-stop-disabling-windows-update/
Mind you this was June 2015.
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@Breffni-Potter Sorry about that. Issue corrected.
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A few days later they relented.
Whether they did so before or after Microsoft legal phoned them is another question.
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Nevermind, this topic is old. For some reason it was in my news feed.
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Might have something to do with most Samsung computers still being incompatible with Windows 10.
Also, beat you to it
http://mangolassi.it/topic/5345/samsung-disabling-windows-updates
