Thursday, February 26, 2015

Lenovo is not the only victim of the complexity of Superfish – EN Journal

Lenovo is not only brand ‘hit’ by adware Superfish. What happened to the Chinese brand in recent times, it just came alert users to the possibility of this practice by other manufacturers.

The mechanism of Superfish and identical adware, lets you explore and perform attacks on machines installed. Have been available tools to remove the Superfish in Lenovo computers, but the problem is not just about Lenovo and for other cases, there are no known solutions.

Lenovo already went public apology users for selling computed ‘adware’ pre-installed without their consent, and has indicated that it will ‘give’ these practices, and that their computers will fail to load the Superfish that for many users, it is only a virus.

This software without the user’s consent, injects advertising on websites and research, provided that made by Google. According to The Next Web, several security solutions (antivirus programs), advise the removal of Superfish, considering the same as adware

Learn what is adware:. Adware is any program that automatically runs and displays a lot of ads without your permission. The functions of Adware serve to analyze the Internet sites that the user visits and presents you with relevant advertising to the types of goods or services present there.

This is not new to the sides of Lenovo China. All this was further revealed in 2014 on various tech forums. It seems that the brand has not done case, and continued to sell computers with unwanted software.

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