Fredbargate

What is Superfish?

Superfish is a piece of software that Lenovo has admitted to pre-installing on many of its laptops

Superfish snoops in on your web browsing and secretly slips ads into webpages. But the really dangerous part is that it's pre-installed with root certificate authority, which allows it to impersonate any server's security certificate.

If this certificate is compromised by hackers, you could be tricked into logging in to a fake website and giving hackers your password. Because of Superfish, any of your accounts—including encrypted bank accounts—could be easily compromised.

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mikelincs

Thanks Fred, just ordered a Lenovo laptop, so that info will be great

MikeJ

Also have a read of the Gruniad tech writer's analysis - it's scary.

How can I find and remove Superfish and similar malware? | Technology | The Guardian

Superfish is based on Komodia which can be installed clandestinely on ANY Windows 8(.1) computer and the Superfish removal tool does not remove it - although Windows Defender can and mostly does.

cappuccino

Thanks for this information. Today I purchased a Lenovo notebook and installed Avast which after all my set up/software installation, warned me about Superfish. I had no idea till I read your post what Superfish was so thanks for that and for the link to the unistall.