At the end of last week appeared to the surface "scandal" new in the digital world with the respect the privacy and the privacy of users, and was the heroine of the scandal, the Chinese company "Lenovo" where it turns out that they are integrating "Adware" Oober.s. powered media on their computers, but its goals may exceed the business side to reach the spy side.
And this issue has cropped up during the end of last week after it was discovered that the Chinese company "Lenovo" The integration of the program supported by the media "Adware" on their computers phones, and this adware carries the name "Superfish" and is working on the show targeted ads to the user through the browse various sites means that the aim is to primarily commercial, but that's not all, because this in computers Lenovo program may carry security risk to users.
Since the program Superfish has a certification system and SSL is what can the private information of users, including passwords and banking information in parallel with his work in the field of advertising directed to the user even if the surf safe sites words, as this hardware is classified as a malicious program for some antibiotics viruses.
Chinese Lenovo recognized this serious incident and confirmed that since last January was not delivered any laptop from the company's program Superfish and promised that this program will not be installed again categorically in any of its computers, they also published a "special tool" in order to remove This adware from their computers for users affected, but it seems that all this did not live up to a number of them, with some users began to lodge complaints against the company for damages.
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