HP Dynamic Audio extension for Google Chrome

[jfotheringham]

Hi team,

I have had multiple users receive a popup for HP Dynamic Audio extension for Google Chrome, and I have some questions regarding this;

1. What exactly is it?

2. What does it do

3. What causes the popup - some of the affected users have had their laptops for 2+ months, why is it only happening now?

4. The popup only appeared for ~10 seconds and then went away - was the extension installed or no?

[JulezMBI]

We started to see the same nonense pop-up. This sounds like some sort of PUP extension that HP is trying to install. Basically unnecessary trash.
https://cihansol.com/blog/index.php/2021/07/17/uncovering-hps-potentially-unwanted-applications/

The sad part is this is appearing on Zbooks in our organization. This is a future vulnerability in progress.
Stop making unnecessary crapware.