HP Admits to Bloatware Security Issue!

Do you have an HP notebook? If so, you may want to get the latest patch from HP! For the second time this year HP has announced that some of the “bloatware” that it puts on its systems before they are sold included a key logger that can lead to you losing your personal data or compromising your system.

This is another good reason that I wipe a system and reinstall the operating system when I get a new computer! Too many vendors that get paid for putting all this junk on the system before goes out the door have this junk on the PC that just slows it down! In this case, it’s actual malware! This is getting out of hand! Let’s fight bloatware!

HP systems that have this problem include HP G2 Notebooks, the HP Elite x2 1011 G1 tablet, HP EliteBooks, HP ProBooks and HP ZBook models, among others.

So, another good reason to keep your systems patched, whether by the vendor, or your standard operating system patches. We live in a really strange world!