• There’s a reason why you just got a driver update for your HP notebook

    Posted on December 9, 2017 at 06:38 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Looks like somebody forgot and left a keylogger sitting inside the Synaptics Touchpad driver, SynTP.sys.

    Full story by Catalin Cimpanu on bleeping computer.

    HP released a list of affected notebooks. The list is 475 models-long and includes 303 consumer notebooks and 172 commercial notebooks, mobile thin clients, and mobile workstations. Affected model lines include HP’s 25*, mt**, 15*, OMEN, ENVY, Pavilion, Stream, ZBook, EliteBook, and ProBook series, along with several Compaq models.

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