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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by herogreen on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:05PM (#16540381)
Speaking of badware: last week I found Mac Afee installed on the laptop of a relative that I manage. I assured me that he had not installed it himself (I had not installed anything actually). Could it have come from windows updates ?
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by mynameisvlad on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:53PM (#16540739)
No, Windows Update doesn't distribute third party software. And even if it did, MSE is technically a competitor to McAfee so there wouldn't really be a solid reason to distribute it.

Your relative probably installed something and pressed "Next" through all the dialogs including the ones asking if they want to install super helpful bundled software.

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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by plaguuuuuu on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:44PM (#16540682)
if you manage their device there's a great chance they have no fucking idea what they're doing and could easily have installed it unintentionally
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by v0x on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @11:31PM (#16542287)
McAfee comes packaged in the installation of some other software, e.g., Java, where it can easily be installed by mistake if you aren't paying attention.
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