Interesting Move by Lenovo
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Lenovo is selling computers that come preinstalled with adware that hijacks encrypted Web sessions and may make users vulnerable to HTTPS man-in-the-middle attacks that are trivial for attackers to carry out.
More details about this in an article "Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections" at Ars Technica.
If your system is affected by this here is a link to a followup article describing the removal of the malware:
How to remove the Superfish malware: What Lenovo doesn’t tell you -
It's a pitty that one can never trust preinstalled software. Such antifeatures are unrequested from their customers and work against the interest of their customers.
Besides the fact that bloatware is so common, I find it shocking and a loss of trust that even Lenovo dares to give untrusted, unaudited code "root" access to their customers' devices. Good that I put my software of choice in place of what was preinstalled.
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I removed the culprit as soon as I saw the news. glares at suspicious looking laptop
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