<div dir="ltr"><div>More fun with superfish.  Looks like a bunch more Winders PCs are more vulnerable than Lenovo has admitted.  The new watchword is &quot;komodia&quot;.  Y&#39;all have fun out there.<br><br><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150219/16143030074/lenovo-quietly-deletes-that-bit-about-no-security-concerns-to-superfish-while-superfish-says-no-consumers-vulnerable.shtml">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150219/16143030074/lenovo-quietly-deletes-that-bit-about-no-security-concerns-to-superfish-while-superfish-says-no-consumers-vulnerable.shtml</a><br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Wipe the drive and install Linux. Problem Solved.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Feb 19, 2015 9:10 PM, &quot;James Earl Smith&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:feenix3k@aim.com" target="_blank">feenix3k@aim.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div dir="ltr">Oh joy I have one of these lemons. What should I do with it :-(</div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Alex Carver <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></span><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yes, I do recall the sale.  Here at work we now only have Dell and HP<br>
(plus Sun and Apple, too.) though I think there are some areas where<br>
Lenovo-as-Thinkpad still shows up.<br>
<span><br>
On 2015-02-19 11:02, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
&gt; Recall that Lenovo made all Thinkpads for IBM for years.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Hmm. Dell probably lobbied to approve the sale to Lenovo as Dell picked up the Federal laptop sales.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; On February 19, 2015 1:58:17 PM EST, Alex Carver &lt;<a>agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt; I do wonder if there&#39;s a slightly darker purpose for the installation<br>
&gt;&gt; considering Lenovo is in China.<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; On 2015-02-19 09:42, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; Another good reason to NEVER USE THE INSTALLED OS.<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS wipe the drive and install your own OS from<br>
&gt;&gt; known<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; good media.<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; But, hey! It&#39;s for windoze (l)users so it must not be a critical<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; machine.<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 09:20 -0800, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; On 2015-02-19 09:17, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; <a>http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/</a><br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; And once you read that article, read their corporate statement.<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <a>http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929</a><br>
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