Great... I'm the last person in the startup world still using a PC, and it happens to be a Lenovo.
Is it a Thinkpad, or a consumer model? The Thinkpads were never involved in this.
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
#12I was under the impression that Lenovo supplies a lot of computers to government and enterprise contracts around the world. Was Superfish only installed on consumer oriented devices, like the ones typically found at Best Buy? I realize most large enterprise would re-image their computers before deployment. I'm shocked that Lenovo would release such a statement. The damage to its credibility is significant.
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#13Microsoft is currently doing Lenovo's work for them: https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/568800260111388672
The latest version of Windows Defender is actively removing the Superfish software and the cert.
The text of the definition is here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=us7iXvkn
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#14I 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 thwarte…
You live in a bubble. There are plenty of people who use Lenovo products that are not tech people. By saying this, even though you don't intend to, you are minimizing the effect of this and being an apologist for lenovo.
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Assuming that this isn't an intentional backdoor that they had to place, there is no defense, period.
Intentionally weakening people's system, MITMing their traffic, and inserting ads in private communication.
If an individual was doing this, let alone at this scale, they would be stamped 'hacker' and put in some dark prison for ten years. Now it's Lenovo, they will get away with an apology or a class action lawsuit at most.
Whoever decided to include this belongs in jail.
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#16"Beijing-based computer maker Lenovo has reportedly been blacklisted for years by spy agencies worldwide, as concerns about government-sanctioned Chinese hacking persist. According to the Australian Financial Review, Australia, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and the US have all rejected Lenovo machines for their top-secret networks since the mid-2000s, though the computers can be used for lower-security tasks that don't involve sensitive information" [1]
Why buy a laptop from a company that has ties to the Chinese government [2], an authoritarian government that supports dictators in Africa and totalitarian government in Russia, oppressing women and children in those countries?
[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/30/4570780/lenovo-reportedly-... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo
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#17I 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 thwarte…
I use a default install and I'm a techie. I just remove the bloatware first.
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#18Great... I'm the last person in the startup world still using a PC, and it happens to be a Lenovo.
Is it a Thinkpad, or a consumer model? The Thinkpads were never involved in this.
Well, given that they are morally corrupt enough to do this to their customers, why not expect them to have similar trojans or backdoors on Thinkpads?
If we assume firmware is safe, wipe it and do a clean install from trusted media.
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#19While we're at it, Lenovo's statement that we might enjoy the adware: "The relationship with Superfish is not financially significant; our goal was to enhance the experience for users" is self-evidently bullshit.
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#20I 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 thwarte…
You live in a bubble. There are plenty of people who use Lenovo products that are not tech people. By saying this, even though you don't intend to, you are minimizing the effect of this and being an apologist for lenovo.
Well, I wasn't trying to do that. I'll edit my comment to make my intent more clear.