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What You Need to Know About Superfish, The man-in-the-middle Adware Installed on Lenovo PCs
The Lenovo PCs apparently come with pre-installed adware that uses Man-in-the-middle method to inject any ad into any page however trusted and secure.
The Superfish VisualDiscovery features which are harmful and irksome are given below :
Hijacks legitimate connections.
Monitors user activity.
Collects personal information and uploads it to it’s servers
Injects advertising in legitimate pages.
Displays popups with advertising software
Uses man-in-the-middle attack techniques to crack open secure connections.
Presents users with its own fake certificate instead of the legitimate site’s certificate.
The Lenovo admin have stated that they have temporarily removed Superfish from their customers PC’s till the issue raised in the forum and by cyber security experts is address.
The Lenovo PCs apparently come with pre-installed adware that uses Man-in-the-middle method to inject any ad into any page however trusted and secure.
The Superfish VisualDiscovery features which are harmful and irksome are given below :
Hijacks legitimate connections.
Monitors user activity.
Collects personal information and uploads it to it’s servers
Injects advertising in legitimate pages.
Displays popups with advertising software
Uses man-in-the-middle attack techniques to crack open secure connections.
Presents users with its own fake certificate instead of the legitimate site’s certificate.
The Lenovo admin have stated that they have temporarily removed Superfish from their customers PC’s till the issue raised in the forum and by cyber security experts is address.
