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Re:FTDI removes counterfeit-bricking driver from Windows Update by kabdib on Friday October 24, 2014 @11:37AM (#8504172)
Alerting the user from a driver is a bad, bad thing.

I believe it is not allowed by WHQL certified drivers.

(It's also non-trivial to do in a Windows kernel driver. You can't call MessageBox(), you can't process user input, you can't even get a context to draw on the screen. Basically you have to rely on a user-mode helper app that gets launched at boot time, which is one of the reasons you see so many device-tweaking utilities for graphics cards and sound cards).

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Re:FTDI removes counterfeit-bricking driver from Windows Update by HCIdivision17 on Friday October 24, 2014 @11:57AM (#8504247)
Oh absolutely. To me, it's just choosing the lesser of two evils.

Like, I'd rather go to jail and be inconvenienced instead of shot on sight, but I feel both are overkill for a parking ticket.

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