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Offline Bobboau

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Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
on: February 19, 2015, 09:47:12 am
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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #1 on: February 19, 2015, 01:04:31 pm
Anybody who has stock in Lenovo better sell fast. It's not going to be high very mush longer.
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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #2 on: February 19, 2015, 03:26:05 pm
Their stock will turn to mush.. quickly.

Yeah, I saw this on Reddit and was like :wtf:
 

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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #3 on: February 19, 2015, 04:31:39 pm
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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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #4 on: February 19, 2015, 05:45:51 pm
All of my CEP's pcs are Lenovo... :nervous:
 

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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #5 on: February 20, 2015, 12:33:34 am
Glad I don't have that on my computer
Got my lenovo about a year ago

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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #6 on: February 20, 2015, 01:45:48 am
be interesting to see how many business involved in e-commerce have affected machines
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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #7 on: February 20, 2015, 10:39:40 am
I've seen a bunch of people say 'their stock is gona crash', it's not crashing.
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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #8 on: February 20, 2015, 11:39:20 am
I have recently bought Lenovo laptop, luckily it came without an OS preinstalled.
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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #9 on: February 20, 2015, 12:12:54 pm
Latest news: MS has updated Windows Defender to kill Superfish on sight.
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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #10 on: February 20, 2015, 07:59:01 pm
:yes:
 

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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #11 on: February 21, 2015, 04:02:37 am
Quote from: The E on February 20, 2015, 12:12:54 pm
Latest news: MS has updated Windows Defender to kill Superfish on sight.

But does that remove the Superfish cert key? That's just as important for security as removing the software itself.
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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #12 on: February 21, 2015, 04:23:19 am
Yes, it does.
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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #13 on: February 21, 2015, 06:05:40 am
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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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #14 on: February 24, 2015, 08:42:29 am
Intentional, or not?  :drevii:
 

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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #15 on: February 24, 2015, 09:22:09 am
Ehm. MS needs to make sure its **** works, not someone else's. :p
 

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Reply #16 on: February 24, 2015, 09:29:00 am
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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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #17 on: February 26, 2015, 07:19:19 pm
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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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #18 on: February 27, 2015, 01:13:04 am
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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Re: Lenovo caught intentionally shipping man-in-the-middle spyware
Reply #19 on: February 27, 2015, 01:25:41 am
how old is the laptop?
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