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Re:Updated ThinkPad Laptop Portfolio by sandov on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @09:06AM (#22413260)
The difference being that Lenovo did it at the firmware level. Even if you reinstalled Windows from scratch, the malware would still be installed.
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Re:Updated ThinkPad Laptop Portfolio by windexh8er on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @12:25PM (#22415078)
Not exactly. It was bundled into the recovery partition, so if you used that to reinstall your machine you'd get the OEM installation which included Superfish.

However, if you reinstalled Windows manually you wouldn't have. Technically it had nothing to do with firmware.

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