If you bought a Lenovo laptop this summer, you are probably the victim of a hoax without knowing. His name: Superfish (“super fish”), a adware or potentially malicious spyware that displays advertisements on force your computer. The Chinese, the world’s largest PC maker, was forced to apologize Thursday.
Discovered by multiple users in recent months, the dubious software was preinstalled on devices in series from the factory to inject these pubs within a probable financial agreement. Specifically, surfing commercial sites, similar products will occur on the screen, which will be proposed by Superfish scrutinized your browser.
If partnerships between computer manufacturers and software vendors are common, the case of Superfish is surprisingly intrusive aspect, but mostly by the security hole it presents. Because its considered “risky” design can allow an attack intercepting your private data.
Are you infected with Superfish?
A security software company has since launched a quick and easy tool to immediately check whether the computer you use contains the adware .
It is based on the detection of the main risk for the user: the self-signed security certificate of the software, a practice that opens the door to spying by a third party of your theoretically secure connections.
Lenovo recognized this pre-installation on their computers, it claims to have stopped in January alone. Chinese assures that he had detected no safety issues and minimize its impact. But nevertheless offers in stride a detailed guide for uninstall adware maligned. Asked by the Wall Street Journal , the director of Lenovo technology ensures even a tool would soon be released to uninstall completely. It might have been better not to install it at all.
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