Its been just under three weeks since February 19th, when Lenovo became entangled in a web of controversy over its preinstallation of Superfish’s Visual Search adware on some of its popular consumer laptops during last year’s holiday shopping season.
Previously, I have remained very quiet on this subject, not because of my position as ESET’s Distinguished Researcher or because I am a Microsoft MVP, but because for the past several years I have been volunteering in my spare time to help answer questions in Lenovo’s online support forum, as well as answering questions via social media. As such, I have been in a rather unusual position of being able to see what has been happening, from both the viewpoint of a computer manufacturer that had distributed adware, to that of a company dedicated to preventing it. It has also been a difficult position for me to be in: Over the past couple of weeks there have been numerous occasions where one party has shared information that would be very useful to the other, and I have been unable to inform the other party because it was shared in confidence
Superfish: Lenovo goes on the bloatware offensive
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