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2015-02-20 China-Japan-Koreas

PRC's Lenovo caught pre-installing malicious, hacker-prone software

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-02-20 00:25|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 Huh. Guess the boss can't say my personal laptop is less secure than the company issued Lenovo.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-02-20 08:39|| 2015-02-20 08:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, and what else do you think they've installed, perhaps in the firmware?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-02-20 08:40|| 2015-02-20 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 They're still installing Windows, so they have not corrected the problem.

Posted by KBK 2015-02-20 10:29|| 2015-02-20 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Microsoft has since identified Superfish as a Trojan with a severe security risk and has issued an "Definition Update" to the current OS's Windows Defender security software, KB915597, version 1.193.395.0. Re-running Windows Update should install this. Some browsers may then develop problems with the original bad certificate, and will need to be patched by their sponsers (e.g. Firefox).

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-02-20 13:59|| 2015-02-20 13:59|| Front Page Top

#5 So if we stop importing computers from China the only folks who will be left doing this sort of thing will be the NSA.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-02-20 14:08|| 2015-02-20 14:08|| Front Page Top

#6 No more Motorola phones for me. Motorola's phone manufacturing is now owned by Lenovo.

Posted by AuburnTom 2015-02-20 18:37|| 2015-02-20 18:37|| Front Page Top

#7 China, maybe its time to reverse the flow of jobs and capital from our greatest existential threat? Curb imports, immigration, information sharing, all over time but reduce the connections? The are not our friends and barely hide their contempt these days.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2015-02-20 18:49|| 2015-02-20 18:49|| Front Page Top

#8 maybe its time to reverse the flow

Unless it's too late

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-02-20 19:20|| 2015-02-20 19:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Uh oh, this news is not what the GPLS here in Guam wants to hear, as they have on some of their CP Stations.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-02-20 19:37|| 2015-02-20 19:37|| Front Page Top

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