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Video: Did your HP laptop come with preinstalled spyware?

Tech Republic Security

Several of HP's laptops have a keylogging problem: The audio driver is actually saving every press you make to an unsecured log file.

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Programs are spies and they like us.

IT Toolbox

I just recently read a news article on how HP sneakily slipped in a spyware program onto recent HP computers under the guise of an update. However, it wasn't an update at all but a new program altogether and it sent information back to HP on a daily basis. People have given reports

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Dell: Privately owned PC and server maker

CTOvision

In 2015, it was the third largest PC vendor in the world after Lenovo and HP. [11] 5 Free Tools to Prevent Viruses and Spyware from Crippling Your PC (pcrichard.com). Dell was listed at number 51 in the Fortune 500 list, until 2014. [10] 11] Dell is currently the #1 shipper of PC monitors in the world. [12] windowscentral.com).

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Help! I have a Virus!

Sean Daniel

Spyware is software that tends to steal from you, capture credit card information, your password etc, also bad, and again Windows Defender will capture most of these, but not all Bloatware is software that that is trying to help you do something, but something you probably don’t need.

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