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Computers-Hacking Title: Lenovo laptops come with preinstalled advertisement injecting adware Lenovo customers complain about the computer manufacturer preinstalling Superfish Adware on their laptops. Superfish hides in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome and injects advertisements in websites. Superfish is active in the background by default on affected systems. It’s likely Lenovo installs the adware on its laptops for months already. Users report Superfish is installed on the Lenovo Y50, Z40, Z50, G50 and Yoga 2 Pro laptops. “Superfish – Powered by VisualSearch, as the adware’s full name is, is recognized by many antivirus scanners as malware. The adware injects advertisements on Google search results and on websites. The Google search results injected by the software are cleverly designed to fit into the search results to make them appear to look normal. On websites the adware injects popups with similar products. The injected advertisements sometimes also interfere with the website causing pages not to render properly. The adware developers will likely receive a commission from each sale made through the advertisements and its turn paid Lenovo to be preinstalled on laptops. The SuperFish software becomes active as soon as a brand Lenovo laptop is switched on. The process (visualdiscovery.exe) can be easily terminated from the Task Manager but can also be uninstalled from the folder with other pre- installed software. Also many malware scanners are able to detect and remove the Superfish adware. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest #1. To: A K A Stone, *Science and technology* (#0) What else do you expect from the freaking Chinese? Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) #2. To: A K A Stone (#0) (Edited) It seems every computer sold has tons of crap ware installed. One solution is to download legal installation media and do a clean install using the OEM key that is attached to the computer.
#3. To: Abcdefg (#2) One solution is to download legal installation media and do a clean install using the OEM key that is attached to the computer. As long as you're going to reinstall the OS, an even better solution is to abandon Windows and install Linux Compared to Linux, Windows itself is "bloatware" and runs slower and sluggish on the same machine. And while you still have to utilize advertising & pop-up blockers in your browser (if you so choose) linux is essentially immune to stealth installation of viruses, adware and spyware onto your hard drive. "Some people march to a different drummer — and some people polka." Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest |
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