Lenovo Statement on Superfish

Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by waps on Thursday February 19, 2015 @09:48PM (#9078625)

This provides some details :

So no, they'll get a rootkit process running on your machine and (for instance) upload everything on your hard drive through your web browser.

Another thing they've done is to upload hacked drivers to cause other hardware connected to the infected machine to physically destroy itself.

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Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by sjolsen on Friday February 20, 2015 @01:50PM (#9082098)

There's a big difference between Lenovo selling bloatware rights to an adware company and the NSA (or whoever) bugging some hard drives.

Is that spyware Windows-specific?

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