[ale] Way to go Lenovo (not)

[Alex Carver]

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-to-remove-the-superfish-malware-what-lenovo-doesnt-tell-you/

On 2015-02-19 18:08, James Earl Smith wrote:
> Oh joy I have one of these lemons. What should I do with it :-(
> 
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, I do recall the sale.  Here at work we now only have Dell and HP
>> (plus Sun and Apple, too.) though I think there are some areas where
>> Lenovo-as-Thinkpad still shows up.
>>
>> On 2015-02-19 11:02, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>> Recall that Lenovo made all Thinkpads for IBM for years.
>>>
>>> Hmm. Dell probably lobbied to approve the sale to Lenovo as Dell picked
>> up the Federal laptop sales.
>>>
>>> On February 19, 2015 1:58:17 PM EST, Alex Carver <
>> agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
>>>> I do wonder if there's a slightly darker purpose for the installation
>>>> considering Lenovo is in China.
>>>>
>>>> On 2015-02-19 09:42, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>>> Another good reason to NEVER USE THE INSTALLED OS.
>>>>>
>>>>> ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS wipe the drive and install your own OS from
>>>> known
>>>>> good media.
>>>>>
>>>>> But, hey! It's for windoze (l)users so it must not be a critical
>>>>> machine.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 09:20 -0800, Alex Carver wrote:
>>>>>> On 2015-02-19 09:17, Alex Carver wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And once you read that article, read their corporate statement.
>>>>>> http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929
>>