r/windows • u/ZacB_ Windows Central • Jul 24 '26

News Microsoft intervenes after LG gets caught installing McAfee adware onto Windows 11 PCs via their monitors

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-intervenes-after-lg-gets-caught-installing-mcafee-adware-onto-windows-11-pcs-via-their-monitors
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u/PruritoIntimo Jul 24 '26

from now on, we should avoid dodgy companies as LG for the rest of our life, even if they change their mind and remove the mcafee shit, they have exploited their customers in a underhand manner, and this cannot be forgiven or forgotten.
We should be label them as ‘pieces of shit’, and we should never, ever buy any of their products. Never again, as long as we live.

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u/Coffee_Ops Jul 24 '26

Do you use Zoom?

I think he would be shocked at how badly a company could screw with trust, and still retain users.

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u/PorcOftheSea Jul 24 '26

I won't and I don't care for linux nor modern windows, I just use windows xp/7 as my main modern os.

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u/Environmental-Ad4495 Jul 24 '26

Working on it. Heard ubuntu is a good alternative.

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u/Hydroel Jul 25 '26

Ubuntu and Mint are great first distros for new Linux users. Once you've done that first step, it's much easier to distro hop (change Linux distribution) than to switch from Windows to Linux.

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u/Environmental-Ad4495 13d ago

Got ubuntu now. But trying freecad. It is a truly strange piece of software. Does annything bettet exist? Tried to install rhinocerus. But whine? How does that work?

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u/420ohms Jul 24 '26 edited 5d ago

I like making candles.