Manufacturers sometimes do some pretty inexplicable things to their products in the name of helping end users. For example, it has recently been discovered that Samsung is quietly and automatically ...

Samsung has been caught disabling Windows Update on at least some of its laptops and installing software that prevents the user from changing the setting back to its automatic default. Share on ...

Even if someone discovers that Windows Update is disabled and then re-enables it, Samsung's software updater will automatically disable it again on the next reboot. As with Superfish and Lenovo, ...

In what is yet another case of a manufacturer making things harder than they need to be, Samsung is pushing customers to use its own utility in favor of Windows Update to keep their laptops updated.

Samsung has been caught disabling Windows Update on at least some of its laptops and installing software that prevents the user from changing the setting back to its automatic default. Share on ...