For the last several weeks, multiple Reddit users have reported that their LG monitors had surreptitiously added an app to their PC through an automatic patch via Windows Update.

LG will disable McAfee ads shown through its Windows monitor app after Microsoft intervened, raising new questions about user ...

Sometimes, good things come to those who complain. Microsoft said that LG will stop shoving ads at users after they merely connect the company’s popular monitors to their PCs. Still, that doesn’t mean ...

LG monitors quietly installed an app that showed a pop-up ad for McAfee software, an example of how third-party devices can leverage Windows to install bloatware and adware.

Back in July, it came to light that LG monitors could actually install bloatware on your machine (specifically, an LG app that shilled McAfeee security software at you) through Windows Update.