Will you ever consider buying from Lenovo after this?
My sister has a Lenovo. I rate this thread "slightly interesting".
Now I'm just gonna go rant about how big corporations suck.
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Ah right. an old IBM ThinkPad. Guess which company took over that brand when IBM sold it off in 2005 ? Hint: the answer is in this thread's title
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I had a laptop by Lenovo... never more. That just made me smile. :)
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yep huehuehue. But serious, i've saw a kid with a magalhães walking around as it was his walkman.
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Yup. What ladeeda said. Thats the real problem here. How in the world does something like Superfish get passed Lenovo staff anyways. Complete craziness.
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Old ThinkPads with their TrackPoint™ will – in a few years – become a Notebook version of the lolNokia3310nobrakelol-neverhadit-butisfunni meme.
My IdeaPad, on the other hand, is rubbish.
"Lenovo Caught Installing Adware In New PCs" – the phrasing implies everyone else does it as well, just poor little Lenovo got caught, it makes you to feel sorry for them. :(
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All i see is a post about what was found on the pc,link to more proof that the company itself was involved then i might take a bit of a notice,until then i will assume this could have been done by anyone who worked there and had access to do this.
It would not be the first or last time an employee abused there access to hardware to install viruses/adware/spyware
Either way it is a risk and will become a bigger risk as the more and more we become plugged into the net and the more devices we connect the more ways they will find to hack and pass viruses and such
After all was it China or Japan that not long ago did a promo for free mp3 players and someone who worked where they where being made installed viruses in them,lucky it was caught before it became wide spread and ended up being a minor threat
Anything you buy from someone else no matter how trusted can be infected as it is only as safe as the people handling it.
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Reminds me of when Sony installed some malware on their music CDs or something similar.
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I'm pretty sure my Lenovo has tons of spyware on it already, considering that it's a company computer
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They were caught putting ad-ware on brand new computers.
Supposedly, it breaks connections and shiiiieet.
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