Lenovo Caught Installing Adware In New PCs

My sister has a Lenovo. I rate this thread "slightly interesting".
Now I'm just gonna go rant about how big corporations suck.

i would never even think about buying a lenovo before this
if you are looking to get a laptop get a butterfly laptop

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I had a laptop by Lenovo... never more. That just made me smile. :)

The hardware is decent. The bloatware they bundle the OS with is not; so the standard procedure is to install a clean OS after buying.

Nothing beats the Magalhães Master Race !!!!!

10/10 Portuguese people would buy again.

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I buy about 2 lenovo laptops a month, luckily I wipe them and clone an image immediately :)

no..

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. :(

Lenovo? More like not-gonna-but-anything-from-themovo!

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.

Reminds me of when Sony installed some malware on their music CDs or something similar.

What's important is the hardware. I'll just reformat the PC to stock OS.

Unfortunately I got Lenovo laptop 2 months ago and looks like my laptop had that shit installed :(
Thanks for heads up , removed it and changed all my passwords in time.

My god my now two years old laptop is lenovo (personal laptop, work laptop is ASUS). I'll never buy Lenovo for my next gen laptop then.

I'm pretty sure my Lenovo has tons of spyware on it already, considering that it's a company computer

And people wonder why Macbooks are so popular. Maybe because not everyone has time to clean out the crap from their PCs?

Custom build FTW. No harm buying Apple since all laptops are over-priced nowadays.