Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections - Ars T.

[blackbird34]

Lenovo is selling computers that come preinstalled with adware that hijacks encrypted Web sessions and may make users vulnerable to HTTPS man-in-the-middle attacks that are trivial for attackers to carry out, security researchers said.
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http://arstechnica.com/security/2015...nts=1&start=80

The comments section is in uproar.

[grahammechanical]

This is how the BBC published the news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31533028

If that is the same superfish as this superfish than this matter could be much, much worse.

http://www.home.superfish.com/#!partners/c1qiz

People may be installing apps using this technology.

Regards.

[Linuxratty]

I'd love to know why they think it's perfectly ok to do this sort of thing. it reminds me of Sony's rootkit.

[blackbird34]

More Ars coverage, it looks like this is a potentially massive story with lots of companies involved... including Comodo

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015...s-get-simpler/

[Hexxus]

I just read on Facebook - all over the place that there is a law-suit over it now to Lenovo... not totally surprised. I mean, you take money and don't have it vetted out? Kinda funky if you ask me...

[CantankRus]

I just read on Facebook - all over the place that there is a law-suit over it now to Lenovo... not totally surprised. I mean, you take money and don't have it vetted out? Kinda funky if you ask me...

Not surprising.... US lawyers don't miss an opportunity for a class action.

[Linuxratty]

It never ceases to amaze me what big companies think they can get away with.

[mastablasta]

More Ars coverage, it looks like this is a potentially massive story with lots of companies involved... including Comodo

Comodo issue seems to have been limited to a certain version, and it was already patched in the same day. as per their comment it was an error in a library or something. anyway not something they intended to happen is what they say.

hmm... the thing is why do they add some many things for example to their firewall.... you now have virus scanner, virtual desktop, firewall... and many other things in Comodo firewall.