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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bobboau on February 19, 2015, 09:47:12 am
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/19/superfish_lenovo_spyware/
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Anybody who has stock in Lenovo better sell fast. It's not going to be high very mush longer.
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Their stock will turn to mush.. quickly.
Yeah, I saw this on Reddit and was like :wtf:
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Honestly I'm surprised this is the first time anyone's been caught doing it. I have a hard time believing all the other companies haven't snuck something untoward to at least some degree in their bloatware. Maybe not full on ad hijacking.
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All of my CEP's pcs are Lenovo... :nervous:
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Glad I don't have that on my computer
Got my lenovo about a year ago
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be interesting to see how many business involved in e-commerce have affected machines
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I've seen a bunch of people say 'their stock is gona crash', it's not crashing.
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I have recently bought Lenovo laptop, luckily it came without an OS preinstalled.
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Latest news: MS has updated Windows Defender to kill Superfish on sight (http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=us7iXvkn).
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:yes:
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Latest news: MS has updated Windows Defender to kill Superfish on sight (http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=us7iXvkn).
But does that remove the Superfish cert key? That's just as important for security as removing the software itself.
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Yes, it does.
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It handles the root cert for Windows but does not handle the Firefox and Thunderbird cert stores, they use ones separate from the Windows one.
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Intentional, or not? :drevii:
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Ehm. MS needs to make sure its **** works, not someone else's. :p
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Umm, until it steps into the anti-malware business, because then, it needs to make sure your system is secure and works, not just the parts of it that happen to be designed by MS. Imagine if AVG, Avira, Comodo, Kaspersky, BitDefender, Malwarebytes, et al did this...
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Don't forget pokki start menu that they also include. I've fixed numerous pokki start menu infections. Pokki keeps installing and installing and installing. It's rather aggressive. Dealt with this numerous times at my new job for client and customer computers.
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I finally found a new laptop that meets my requirements. It's a lenovo though. :/ Anyone know how easy it is to get a hold of a clean install ISO for windows 8.1? Or maybe I'll just buy a copy of 7. They can't be that expensive any more right? (yeah right)
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how old is the laptop?
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My current one is from 2006. The new one I haven't bought yet. I have no idea when it shipped to the retailer, but it seems to not be this year's model as it's not on Lenovo's website without searching for it.
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I think you can D'L an 8.1 ISO from M$ (or verify the checksum from a non-M$ source with the M$ one) and install that using your 8.1 key on the bottom of the laptop. Has worked for me with 7.
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Don't windows 8 machines have the full OS on the recovery partition
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The recovery partition includes the OEM bloatware. They also don't put the key on the bottom of the laptop (or anywhere else). You have to use some utility that will read it for you.
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For legitimate microsoft windows 7 iso recovery (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery). And for legitimate microsoft windows 8 media installation creation (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media).
The windows 7 link should give you a download to windows 7 if you have a valid key to authorize a download. For windows 8 media creation, you should be able to create an installable iso. However, i don't know very much about the media creation tool.
These technically should both give an escape to inclusive bloatware.