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lenovo-inc / superfishremoval

Utility to remove SuperFish application
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Sorry but you gave us preinstalled Adware. You can't remove that from our brains. #1

Closed Horrgs closed 9 years ago

Horrgs commented 9 years ago

P.S.: I go to a private high school that gives each student a Lenovo laptop. Not sure if Adware is on it, not my issue.

Our contract with whoever ends over the summer so we'll be get getting new ones. My teacher that knows the most about technology and handles the laptops, etc,. said we can only get Lenovo's as they are the "best" built laptops. I told him "Where did you hear that? Answers.com?" (Answers.com is also an inside joke because a student used it as a source for a research paper we're doing haha). Took 90% off my paper for calling him out and turning it in 20 minutes late.

Wonder what his opinion will be on this and can you tell him I deserve 180% bc pre-installing Adware on our computers obviously proves you aren't the best "built" laptops.

MitchK commented 9 years ago

:+1:

Totally deserved. This patch is a joke.

The hardware industry wants to build proprietary hardware where you don't have control over your own system. This is what you get, Lenovo.

Unfortunately, there are currently no good alternatives. But Lenovo is now one of the manufacturers that I will never consider buying hardware of nor recommend to my friends.

tauheedul commented 9 years ago

It's an expensive mistake by Lenovo... I'm glad they've responded quickly. They're not the only brand to include adware with their consumer laptops, other manufacturers have done it for years. The mistake was not vetting their partners products more rigorously. It's gonna cost them in sales and time to mend their reputation. Let's see if the other manufacturers do the same.

vadi2 commented 9 years ago

Well, they started off by creating a tool to remove it and open-sourced it so people have no doubts about it - I think that is a good start.

Sandy1973 commented 9 years ago

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On Sunday, February 22, 2015, Vadim Peretokin notifications@github.com wrote:

Well, they started off by creating a tool to remove it and open-sourced it so people have no doubts about it - I think that is a good start.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/lenovo-inc/superfishremoval/issues/1#issuecomment-75496320 .

jag426 commented 9 years ago

This isn't an issue with this project. Save it for Reddit.

lenovo-inc commented 9 years ago

Duplicate of #11