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LG Facing Adware Backlash After Pushing McAfee Pop-Ups to Desktop Monitors.

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LG Faces Backlash Over Monitor Pop-Ups Promoting McAfee Bloatware; Microsoft Intervenes LG Electronics has sparked widespread user outrage across the tech community following reports that its desktop monitors both newly purchased models and legacy displays up to three years old have begun serving intrusive desktop pop-up notifications. The pop-ups prompt users to install the "LG Monitor App Installer," a software utility package that bundles official tools like LG Calibration Studio alongside third-party bloatware, specifically a 30-day free trial of McAfee Anti-Virus . Popular hardware review outlet Gamers Nexus investigated the behavior, demonstrating that the pop-ups appear automatically upon display connection regardless of panel age. Gamers Nexus sharply criticized LG's push notification tactics, labeling the software behavior as intentional adware/bloatware , and publicly announced the return of their newly purchased test monitor back to the retailer in protest....

McAfee Labs identified malware on macOS, an increase of 50% in the past quarter.

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McAfee Labs report Threats Report for the 1st quarter past. There is interesting information that the number of new malware found on macOS, an increase of up to 50% in the first quarter of the year 2017, there are a total of 250,000 times compared to the two years before the discovery in the year 2015 have found 50,000 times. The report states that this type of malware found on macOS mostly adware