Inhibiting recommendation of driver installations for drivers that are likely to cause a system failure

A method comprising:

• obtaining information about driver installations of a given driver on a plurality of computing devices from the plurality of computing devices;
• obtaining information about system failures from the plurality of computing devices;
• determining a correlation between the driver installations of the given driver on the plurality of computing devices and the system failures;
• determining that the given driver is likely to cause at least one of the system failures based at least in part on the determined correlation between the driver installations of the given driver on the plurality of computing devices and the system failures;
• and
• providing an indication that the given driver is likely to cause at least one of the system failures to a given computing device, the indication being configured to cause the given computing device to inhibit a presentation of a recommendation to install the given driver to a user of the given computing device;
• wherein the method further comprises determining a failure rate cutoff value;
• and
• determining that the given driver is likely to cause at least one of the system failures based at least in part on the determined correlation between the driver installations of the given driver on the plurality of computing devices and the system failures comprises determining that a rate of the system failures is greater than the failure rate cutoff value;
• wherein the method is implemented by at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to memory.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by at least one processing device, the at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to memory, causes the at least one processing device:

• to obtain information about driver installations of a given driver on a plurality of computing devices from the plurality of computing devices;
• to obtain information about system failures from the plurality of computing devices;
• to determine a correlation between the driver installations of the given driver on the plurality of computing devices and the system failures;
• to determine that the given driver is likely to cause at least one of the system failures based at least in part on the determined correlation between the driver installations of the given driver on the plurality of computing devices and the system failures;
• and
• to provide an indication that the given driver is likely to cause at least one of the system failures to a given computing device, the indication being configured to cause the given computing device to inhibit a presentation of a recommendation to install the given driver to a user of the given computing device;
• wherein the program code when executed further causes the at least one processing device to determine a failure rate cutoff value;
• and
• determining that the given driver is likely to cause at least one of the system failures based at least in part on the determined correlation between the driver installations of the given driver on the plurality of computing devices and the system failures comprises determining that a rate of the system failures is greater than the failure rate cutoff value.