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WU allows hardware manufacturers to silently install literally anything based on hardware ID matching and the only way to prevent that is to disable WU driver u
by formerly_proven 5y ago
WU allows hardware manufacturers to silently install literally anything based on hardware ID matching and the only way to prevent that is to disable WU driver updates entirely (via GPC/registry).
In my case the maker of my motherboard installed a persistent “self-repairing” (i.e. difficult to uninstall) from yet another third party. Naturally, I will not buy a product from them (MSI) again.
Another way to put this is: windows update will install malware w/o user approval in the background.
- the_pwner224 5y agoYou can probably turn that off from the BIOS. It's (unfortunately) pretty common these days, MSI isn't special for doing this. It's a different mechanism from Windows automatically loading drivers and/or the vendor's malware when you plug in a device.