Lenovo stops Superfish preloads and issues advisory
Saturday, February 21, 2015 - 05:50
in Mathematics & Economics
Lenovo has seen calmer weeks. News sites in droves rang chimes and sirens over an adware program on some Lenovo models escalating to concerns about the potential risk of a Man in the Middle threat. Lenovo has been attempting to meet the storm head-on and has stopped preloads of the program called Superfish. In a statement, Lenovo said, "In our effort to enhance our user experience, we pre-installed a piece of third-party software, Superfish (based in Palo Alto, CA), on some of our consumer notebooks. We thought the product would enhance the shopping experience, as intended by Superfish. It did not meet our expectations or those of our customers. In reality, we had customer complaints about the software."