Lenovo SUPERFISH preload malware

[DrLeftover]

How to remove Superfish
and its certificate from your Lenovo® PC

What is Superfish?

Superfish is a piece of software that Lenovo has admitted to pre-installing on many of its laptops to "enhance the shopping experience" of its users. However, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team calls Superfish a "man-in-the-middle attack" because of how it "intercepts users' web traffic to provide targeted advertisements."

MORE, including list of PCs involved:

http://www.avg.com/campaign-landing-pages/ww-en/lenovo-superfish

 

[Farfar]

This is pretty old tho, But thanks for sharing it.

Also add this link instead on how to remove it.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2886278/how-to-remove-the-dangerous-superfish-adware-presintalled-on-lenovo-pcs.html

 

[alakazam]

One more reason why I don't like Lenovo. I could never stand this company and I will never buy any of their products.

 

[Penguin]

Lenovo's laptops are solid and extremely well built. It's the Windows bloatware culture that causes crap like this; and honestly some Lenovo exec thought it was a good idea, didn't know the implications, and bypasses all the techies.

One of the reasons I use Linux.