Privacy security
Lenovo has come under fire this week for pre-installing a piece of adware
on some of its consumer devices that inserts third-party ads into users’ web
browsing sessions and may open those computers up to attack.
The software, called Superfish, was pre-installed on some Lenovo consumer
laptops during a period from September to December 2014. If users choose to
turn it on the first time they start up their computer, it watches a user’s
browsing and serves contextually-relevant
ads. It also installs a self-signed root SSL certificate that will allow the software to monitor even a user’s secure web browsing
sessions.
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