Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless
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Re: Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless
#2Great... I'm the last person in the startup world still using a PC, and it happens to be a Lenovo.
Re: Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless
#3The more they deny this is a problem, the more it damages their reputation.
They should just admit the problem, thank the security experts, and develop an easy fix.
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How is that any kind of a defense?
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"In Lenovo defense, the crap that is shipped in the default configuration of every modern windows computers makes something like this inevitable."
If only there was some way they could have known what was pre-installed on the machines they're selling. /s
Re: Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless
#8Great... I'm the last person in the startup world still using a PC, and it happens to be a Lenovo.
And you're still running the OS that it came with? Even if you want to keep Windows, always reinstall fresh. It's far easier than trying to hunt down every piece of malware they put on it
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#9Great... I'm the last person in the startup world still using a PC, and it happens to be a Lenovo.
The time period where Superfish was included was a relatively small chunk of 2014, so you may not be impacted.
A good general guideline when buying an off-shelf Windows machine is to do a full wipe first. There may be some manufacturers who are immune to this, but assume everyone's included some bloatware. I find too many people who buy Windows machines start by attempting to manually remove this stuff, which is often a hopeless proposition. Clean wipe, reinstallation.
This isn't the reason why most startups/devs have moved to Apple, but it sure helps.
Re: Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless
#10I warned all my friends and colleagues who use Lenovos, and their answers were all the same. "Who'd be crazy enough to use the default install? First thing I did was (a fresh reinstall of Windows|install Linux)."
(Edit: Obviously this is not representative of the general population, and I didn't mean to suggest it was. I was just noting that my efforts to warn people about the untrustworthiness of Lenovo were thwarted because none of them trusted Lenovo to begin with, not for software at least, and that seemed interesting.)