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Preloaded spyware, courtesy Lenovo
xtabber:
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.....
Lenovo used Windows anti-theft feature to install persistent crapware
ewemoa:
Thanks for pointing this out.
Interesting related commentary here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039306
xtabber:
And yet again!!!
Lenovo insists that they have only ever loaded spyware on consumer products, not their business oriented Think line (ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, etc.).
That also turns out to be a lie.
tomos:
Lenovo insists that they have only ever loaded spyware on consumer products, not their business oriented Think line (ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, etc.).
That also turns out to be a lie.
-xtabber (September 25, 2015, 08:58 AM)
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not wanting to minimise this in any way, but there is an interesting comparision there at the end
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Had this been any other PC vendor, this might be a triviality. Certainly Microsoft is doing far more tracking in Windows 10.
But trust is the price Lenovo pays for their previous behavior. Those of that recall the company's initial reaction to Superfish, dismissing it out of hand, have a hard time trusting them again.
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xtabber:
Comparisons with Microsoft, Google and others are spurious in that those companies publicly acknowledge a business model that depends on collecting information for advertising and marketing purposes. They also generally provide clear information on what they are doing and how to opt out, although warning that can reduce the functionality of their products.
Lenovo is a hardware vendor. They have no business collecting this kind of information unless they are reselling it to third parties, which would appear to be the case here.
The fact that this latest spyware uninstalls itself after 90 days is a dead give-away that Lenovo was fully aware of the damage this could do to their already abysmal reputation.
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