Spyware installed by Lenovo’s own laptops – computer

After complaints from its users, the world’s No. 1 PC Lenovo was forced to remove a pre-installed on many of its notebooks adware.

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This is not a malware, but it can do much harm: Superfish, a software program installed on some Lenovo notebooks marketed between September 2014 and February 2015 to monitor the contents of the web pages you visit and then add to your knowledge on other web pages of advertising for products that might interest you. But above all, this adware sign its own security certificates to read communications, making it unnecessary to HTTPS protection. Lenovo has finally recognize himself the dangerous potential of this adware, the severity of which is described as “high” in the security bulletin that the manufacturer has put online: http://support.lenovo.com /us/en/product_security/superfish.

But above all, the manufacturer decided to stop pre-install the software on his laptop in front of the large number of complaints from users, and provides explanations to those who are yet equipped to uninstall the program. In French, the explanation is here: http://www.lenovo.com/fr/fr/superfish/Proc%C3%A9dure-de-d%C3%A9sinstallation.pdf . Be aware that this other address, you can use an automatic uninstaller software: http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish_uninstall.

On this one, Lenovo “ all missed ” finally declared, disillusioned Peter Hortenisus, CTP (Chief Technology Officer) . Manufacturer

Here laptops affected by a pre-installation Superfish:

G Series: G410, G510, G710, G40-70, G50-70, G40-30, G50-30, G40-45, G50-45, G40-80
U Series: U330P, U430P, U330Touch , U430Touch, U530Touch
Y Series: Y430P, Y40-70, Y50-70, Y40-80, Y70-70
Z Series: Z40-75, Z50-75, Z40-70, Z50-70 , Z70-80
S Series: S310, S410, S40-70, S415, S415Touch, S435, S20-30, S20-30Touch
Flex Series: Flex2 14D, 15D Flex2, Flex2 14 Flex2 15 , Flex2 Pro Flex 10
MIIX Series: MIIX2-8, MIIX2-10, MIIX2-11, MIIX March 1030
YOGA Series: YOGA2Pro-13 YOGA2-13, YOGA2-11, YOGA3 Pro
E Series: E10-30

The Thinkpad laptops are not concerned

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