The company also has McAfee Microsoft and help to kill or isolate the adware PC users to take no tool of knowledge
Lenovo released late in the evening on Friday, 20 / 02, its own tool to erase adware Superfish Visual Discovery of their PCs aimed at consumers. The tool automates the manual process of eliminating Superfish machines, and also deletes the “autonomous” certificate that is installed on the computers by adware and would open a critical gap in security equipment
The company also confirmed that is working with two of its partners, McAfee and Microsoft, to track and automatically clean or isolate the Superfish and remove the certificate of equipment whose owners have not, for some reason, aware of the automatic cleaning tool that was released on Friday -Thurs.
Microsoft had already done its part in the early Friday, when updated their antivirus programs and free Windows Defender Security Essentials with an update that “kills” the Superfish and their side effects automatically Windows machines. Lenovo cleaning program can be found on this website.
The McAfee antivirus program, Internet Security, comes pre-installed on Lenovo desktop machines and laptops 2-in-1 as part of the set of software that the Chinese company installs factory on their PCs as a way to generate additional revenue. In the case of McAfee program, Lenovo offers 30-day free trial and, if you purchase the full subscription of McAfee, she then gets a percentage of the sale.
The irony is that the Superfish also is part of this package of pre-installed programs. The practice of pre install software on computers sold to the consumer market has often been criticized for digital security experts, which Surname such programs “bloatware” or “crapware”. The risk, as well illustrated in this case by Superfish crisis, is that such software will open unknown user security breaches.
The Superfish crisis will certainly expensive cost to Lenovo, which since Thursday is apologizing to users claiming unaware of the potential vulnerability of risk opened by the certificate installed by Superfish.
The question however is a little deeper, said Andrew Storms, vice president of services Security consultancy New Context, San Francisco. “The important question here is whether before installing the programs the company did their homework by checking the software that would be pre-installed on their computers.” A question that applies not only to Lenovo but for all PC manufacturers who adopt the practice of “bloatware”.
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