From yesterday to today it's been making my computer work so hard I can hear it like cranking away and the light in the back of my computer is flashing rapidly in-tune with the cranking. However it happened I don't appreciate it's sneaky take over of my computer's system resources.
Under fire hack uf points update#
I'm assuming it was installed in the background as an update to Hp support or framework. On Hp Touchpoint Analytics Client was installed on my computer without my consent. The HP support site has numerous complaints, such as this one from PurplePassion22: 'Telemetry' program installed without permissionĪll of the reports I’ve seen so far emphasize the point that HP (or Microsoft?) has installed this “telemetry” program without advising customers or requesting permission to install. Regardless of the infection vector, lots of HP customers are livid.
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It isn’t clear to me if the new driver came bundled with the latest official Windows cumulative updates and/or Monthly Rollups and/or Security-only updates, or if it’s being downloaded by HP’s own HP Support Assistant routines. Thus pointing the finger at this month’s Windows updates - but that isn’t the only way it could be spreading. 15, when poster MML on BleepingComputer said:Īfter the latest batch of Windows updates, about a half hour after installing the last, I noticed that this had been installed on my computer because it showed up in the notes of my Kaspersky, and that it opened the Windows Dump File verifier and ran a disk check and battery test. According to Günter Born, reports of the infection go all the way back to Nov. There are dozens of reports of this new, ahem, service scattered all over the internet. Hard to imagine in this age of privacy scandals, but HP is installing a telemetry client on its customers’ computers - and it isn’t offering any warning, or asking permission, before delivering the payload.ĭubbed “HP Touchpoint Analytics Service,” HP says it “harvests telemetry information that is used by HP Touchpoint’s analytical services.” Apparently, it’s HP Touchpoint Analytics Client version 4.
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