Update your buggy Samsung PC bloatware to plug privilege bug Another vulnerability has emerged in Samsung's Software Updater (SW Update) service – this time giving an attacker potential “full control” over a system. Announced by German consultants Blue Frost Security, the vulnerability could be exploited to give an attacker full control over a victim's machine. To exploit the …
crapware is to manufacturer bloatware
as possible low grade fertilizer is to agent orange defoliant.
Often never updated more than once or twice after installation, the best way of handling all that manufacturer junk is to remove it with extreme decontamination level set and hope that there's no residual breakdown poison remaining in your OS.
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Short of a few laptops ebuyer has, or building a tower from scratch, where can you buy a laptop, PC, tablet without an OS?
Very very few places it seems.
Every device i buy that has an installed OS is either wiped and a fresh known good copy minus all the tat is installed or the device is rooted to allow me to remove the bloatware.
The manufactures are simply pawns in MS/Google's big game to foist as much valueless shit that they THINK we need upon us.
What? You dont want our lovely new OS on your hardware, oh dear, then we wont be doing any business with you then. Next!
Quality stores never add this shit, but the mass market ripoff stores do in spades and should be avoided IMO.
The last HP laptop I had to deal with was full of the stuff, from HP itself.
After wiping and reinstalling from the manufacturer's disc, it took me over an hour to identify and zap all the extra crud HP had installed.
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