Lenovo Pre-Instaling Adware/spam – Superfish – Powerd by VisualSearch

mark_l_watson11y ago· 2 in thread

I think that some Lenova laptops are available directly from Microsoft as signature editions, that is, with no crapware. I recently bought an HP signature edition laptop and it was great to have nothing but Windows on it.

gcb011y ago

Wow. microsoft and the pc industry are worse than i thought when it cames to marketing. I'm looking for a windows device and this is the first time i've heard about it!

mark_l_watson11y ago

It is really nice to get a laptop with no crap-ware. Apple laptops have always had a no-crapware advantage, but Microsoft with their signature editions levels the playing field somewhat. BTW, I was going to buy my HP laptop on Amazon but some good person posted a product comment suggesting buying from Microsoft to avid crap-ware - I had never heard of this program before either.

voltagex_11y ago

The story isn't that malware is installed, the story is that there's an SSL MITM + Javascript injection.

Maybe the link should be changed? http://www.myce.com/news/lenovo-laptops-come-with-preinstall... but even this story doesn't have enough info.

Please, if you have this malware export the cert and post it. This has the potential to be really dangerous.

dbenny11y ago

Coworker just got a lenovo laptop that had this problem

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