Lenovo Includes Spam In Recent Software Update

A warning to owners of Lenovo ThinkPad laptops: If you’ve recently used Lenovo’s ThinkVantage automatic update software to receive updates for your laptop, you may have been hit with some annoying adware.

Owners of Lenovo laptops are noticing a pop-up ad that appears every couple of hours offering discounts on other Lenovo products. The intrusive ad does have a tick box for those who want to turn the pop-ups off, but customers are already reporting that this does not work.

Many Lenovo laptop owners have become enraged (and rightfully so) that Lenovo would so deviously include adware in with a software update and force them upon their customers. The source of this pesky pop-up appears to be in the latest update for Message Center Plus, an application intended to warn users of conditions on the laptop’s system that may need user attention. Normally, this would be a handy tool for system maintenance, but the inclusion of the ads corrupts the actual value of the application.

So far, users are recommending a complete removal of the Media Center Plus software, offering instructions on how to not only uninstall it, but also prevent it from being automatically installed in the future.

Lenovo has not yet given an official response to these accusations of abuse. However, ThinkPad owners are demanding an explanation along with a fix. Hopefully, Lenovo will remove the inclusion of advertisements from future software updates, or will at least give the user the genuine ability to disable them.

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