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Just bought a Lenovo laptop over the weekend for my wife. Sounds to me like it's no longer being installed on the laptops, but will check it to make sure Superfish isn't there.



I'd format it with a fresh version of whatever OS came on it just to be safe. I actually have always done this when buying pre-built computers just to get rid of all the junk that comes from the manufacturer.


I wish we had this option for mobile (android) phones which are preloaded with crapware (oftentimes permanently) even more than PCs are.


That was one of the selling points to me for the Nexus line; not perfect, but Google's vision of Android without any of the manufacturer's extras


Well, I have a Nexus and I still see a few applications that I don't want and can't even remove. But you are right that it's a better than others I've seen.

What's worse though is that they apparently don't have any QA whatsoever since they pushed an update that made the device basically unusable (keywords: Nexus 7 2012 Android 5).


Well one can void one's warranty root and install cyanogen mod...


One shouldn't have to void the warranty of one's device to be rid of malicious software.


and then have it freeze and restart every day -__- (I guess is just my particular experience and might not apply to everyone)


To be fair. I didn't do this I'm running what came on it and mine freezes and restarts several times a day anyway...


Any Android 2.x I've touched was unusable piece of .. software. I seriously don't see how they dared to sell it to people. Can't even imagine what 1.x looked like. My experience with 4.x is much better in this regard.


And crash at random times in random apps.


Excellent suggestion. I highly second that. Yes, even though more and more vendors are making that harder. For example, claiming that reinstalling the OS voids your warranty.


Because then they wouldn't benefit from the crapware they installed, so they need to disincent you.

Not running crapware is theft, just like not watching commercials is theft. The only way they can afford to sell you a PC at those prices is by subsidizing their profit with crapware income. /s

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/676651/posts


It's challenging due to multitude of vendor/model specific device drivers that are also required to computer to operate (mouse, network, wifi, usb, etc...).

Plus you need to have a separate OS license as well to make it work.


Well, in the case of Lenovo you can download those drivers.

It's challenging because most people can't install an OS.


I have been Lenovo faithful for many years, although I mainly run Linux and keep a small Windows partition. I strongly recommend you reinstall Windows. Thankfully the regular Windows 7 (and presumably later) disks/USB images from Microsoft work.

The software you will want from Lenovo is their System Updater which can be installed on a fresh (non-Lenovo) Windows install, and will let you install drivers and similar software (nothing is forced, all up to you).

The one thing you won't be able to install the various pieces of crapware, but that is a benefit.


Windows now treats it as malware. Probably has something to do with it.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/20/8077033/superfish-fix-micr...




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