Laptop touchpad driver included extra featu a keylogger

Flaws in software often offer a potential path for attackers to
install malicious software, but you wouldn't necessarily expect
a hardware vendor to include potentially malicious software
built right into its device drivers. But that's exactly what a
security researcher found while poking around the internals of a
driver for a touchpad commonly used on HP notebook computers—a
keystroke logger that could be turned on with a simple change to
its configuration in the Windows registry.

https://arstechnica.com/information-...7/12/touchpad-
driver-with-keylogger-found-on-hp-may-affect-many-other-
notebooks/

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:00:35 +0000 (GMT), Cornelis Tromp
wrote:

Flaws in software often offer a potential path for attackers to
install malicious software, but you wouldn't necessarily expect
a hardware vendor to include potentially malicious software
built right into its device drivers. But that's exactly what a
security researcher found while poking around the internals of a
driver for a touchpad commonly used on HP notebook computers—a
keystroke logger that could be turned on with a simple change to
its configuration in the Windows registry.

https://arstechnica.com/information-...7/12/touchpad-
driver-with-keylogger-found-on-hp-may-affect-many-other-
notebooks/

They caught HP doing it but there's no reason to believe that other
manufacturers aren't trying something similar. The only way that we
can be sure that our computer isn't spying on us is by wiping the
default installation and installing Windows ourself or using Linux. If
I didn't play games, I'd be tempted to do the latter.