Watch the show..Including a new ThinkPad X1 Carbon that's arguably the best laptop of CES 2017.
Watch the show..Including a new ThinkPad X1 Carbon that's arguably the best laptop of CES 2017.
Refreshed spyware too I hope; screw Lenovo.
It was only ever Lenovo's consumer stuff which had the spyware.
The business line ThinkPads were not affected.
However..
... Lenovo had two major spyware controversies: Superfish was software and the far more sinister one 'Lenovo Service Engine (LSE) a rootkit in the BIOS which a clean install would not solve.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-...ot-be-deleted/
Interesting stuff, as it is my model isn't affected hence I haven't had any issues but will say I bought without knowledge of these previous issues, if I did I would have still bought as its a great piece of kit and would have of course made sure I did the necessary to remove said features.
Can't find it now, but I think there was at the very least a proof-of-concept about a rootkit being able to be flashed into a BIOS. I think one of the BIOS firms released a security update to prevent something like that but it's always possible some hackers will perfect something similar someday.
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