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HP printer software turns up uninvited on Windows systems

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    Kent Sharkey
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    The Register[^]:

    Windows users are reporting that Hewlett Packard's HP Smart application is appearing on their systems, despite them not having any of the company's hardware attached.

    That HP printer must be around. Have you looked everywhere?

    Just checked, and sure enough I had it on my machine as well. Odd. Thanks, Microsoft.

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      The Register[^]:

      Windows users are reporting that Hewlett Packard's HP Smart application is appearing on their systems, despite them not having any of the company's hardware attached.

      That HP printer must be around. Have you looked everywhere?

      Just checked, and sure enough I had it on my machine as well. Odd. Thanks, Microsoft.

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      If there's an HP printer anywhere on the network Windows will install it.

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        If there's an HP printer anywhere on the network Windows will install it.

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        Nothing HP in this house. I think it just got mistakenly added to an update. (I suppose at some point I may have connected to the same WiFi network as some HP device, but that would have been the closest I got.)

        TTFN - Kent

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          Nothing HP in this house. I think it just got mistakenly added to an update. (I suppose at some point I may have connected to the same WiFi network as some HP device, but that would have been the closest I got.)

          TTFN - Kent

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          Kent Sharkey wrote:

          (I suppose at some point I may have connected to the same WiFi network as some HP device, but that would have been the closest I got.)

          And unfortunately this is all it takes.

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            The Register[^]:

            Windows users are reporting that Hewlett Packard's HP Smart application is appearing on their systems, despite them not having any of the company's hardware attached.

            That HP printer must be around. Have you looked everywhere?

            Just checked, and sure enough I had it on my machine as well. Odd. Thanks, Microsoft.

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            Looks like "HP Smart" is the new "U2 Songs of Innocence". :laugh:


            "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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