Lenovo caught installing adware on new computers

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

Sucks none the less that they are adding this junk to their systems.

According to the article they "were", of course who know if they learned their lesson for good. Time will tell.

 

[ArtemusComputerTechnology]

Yesterday, I read the article and I find it very interesting. It brings me to the conclusion of corporate and government companies want to spy on regular citizens. Edward Snowden pushed the ball downhill and he is a savior to alot of tech enthusiasts.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Link???

 

[frederick]

Just go this in my email:



LENOVO STATEMENT ON SUPERFISH

Dear Valued Partner,

As you may have heard, select Lenovo consumer notebooks shipped after September 2014 included Superfish Visual Discovery software as a shopping aid to customers. Superfish is a TrustE certified third-party software vendor, with offices in Palo Alto, CA.

User feedback on the software was not positive and we received some reports of security concerns.

Please note that Lenovo has NOT loaded this software on any ThinkPad notebooks, nor any desktops, tablets, workstations, servers or smartphones. The only impacted models are the following consumer notebook series: Z-series, Y-Series, U-Series, G-Series, S-Series, Flex-Series, Yoga, Miix and E-Series. If you use any of these Lenovo consumer models in your enterprise, please refer to the Customer Support information below.

While this software does not impact the models typically used by businesses, we wanted to let you know that we take user feedback seriously at Lenovo. We know that millions of people rely on our devices every day, and it is our responsibility to deliver quality, reliability, innovation and security to each and every customer. We make every effort to provide a great user experience for our customers.

We recognize that the Superfish software has caused concern. Lenovo has taken steps to address that concern.

• Superfish has completely disabled server side interactions (since January) on all Lenovo products so that the software is no longer active.

• Lenovo has stopped preloading the software and will not preload this software again in the future.

• Lenovo has provided instructions for uninstalling this software and will soon provide a software removal patch.


For more information on this, or for instructions on Superfish software removal, please visit http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish.

We appreciate your confidence in Lenovo.

 

[ComputerProVA]

Yep, looks like Lenovo has responded:

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/19/lenovo-stop-preloading-superfish/

 

[nlinecomputers]

US Cert has posted an advisory about this.

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA15-051A

 

[TechPJC]

SuperFish Removal Tool from Lenovo will automatically uninstall the malware

Can Lenovo afford such negative publicity, again? … And Windows, the damage?

 

[NJW]

It's encouraging that Lenovo recognises that this sort of thing can harm them, provided we can believe what they say, of course.

 

[AndyM]

Lenovo have now released an uninstall patch, along with source code that can be examined:

http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish_uninstall

Andy

 

[Spartan PC Services]

It may not be a bad idea to offer a discount on new PC setups for users who purchase an affected unit.

 

[kjm_phd]

There is a test website to see if you have this hijack running on your system.

https://filippo.io/Badfish/

Thanks for this, hadn't seen it...

 

[coastcomputer]

been seeing pokki too... no mention of that anywhere
pokki brought to you by the fine folks at sweetlabs, also see opencandy

 

[JoeTech]

Didn't take long for the first lawsuit to come out on this. i hope it works and makes companies think twice about installing bloatware but i doubt it.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2887392/lenovo-hit-with-lawsuit-over-superfish-snafu.html