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Good to know - I was almost ready to consider Lenovo again after Superfish, but no...


You should generally not trust preinstalled OSs, regardless of vendor. Most (all?) of them shovel crap in there, often because they get paid to do it. It's sad, but it's just the world we live in.

The really scary thing is when vendors put in backdoors or trojans like this at a level below the OS (in UEFI, for example).


It’s similar shit with Dell.

At least Lenovo’s business lineup wasn’t affected.




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