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Thursday, 07 September 2017 10:30
Lenovo pays US$3.5m to settle spyware suit
Hardware vendor Lenovo has paid a sum of US$3.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the US Federal Trade Commission on behalf of 32 American states over charges that the company's laptops came with spyware pre-installed between August and December 2014.
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Thursday, 13 August 2015 14:08
Lenovo owners out the crapware – as if Superfish was not bad enough!
“We are not happy at the almost impossible to remove software disguised as the Lenovo Service Engine (LSE),” say Lenovo owners. It has been happening on all machines manufactured from October 2014 to April 2015.
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Security
Saturday, 21 February 2015 01:05
Superfish yeah go ballistic adware is atrocious
Even just the sound of it is something quite ferocious.
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Fuzzy Logic
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Friday, 20 February 2015 18:21
Lenovo apologises for Superfish, never installed it on biz or enterprise products
Lenovo has moved swiftly to douse the Superfish scandal, a third-party program pre-installed, only on consumer notebooks between September 2014 and February 2015.
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Friday, 20 February 2015 12:12
Superfishy: How to remove Lenovo’s Superfish adware NOW
Did Lenovo Product Engineer Ashton Kutcher know that the Chinese company he works for has included the notorious SSL-compromising Superfish software on its consumer PCs?
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