The Superfish vulnerability has been found in other apps as well.)
Intended as a service to help users comparison-shop, Superfish was more than annoying-it was a security risk. (The developers behind Superfish claim there’s no security risk at all, while researchers disagree. The now-infamous Superfish is an adware tool that supplied its own paid search results, and it came preinstalled on certain Lenovo PCs. The vast majority is harmless (if obnoxious), and some, such as a year’s subscription to Microsoft’s Office 365, arguably increase a PC’s value without increasing the price.
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We call it bloatware, but PC executives make clear that they install software on PCs to benefit consumers and pad tiny profit margins. A little research should save you from the worst of it, though. After the company’s Superfish scandal, we shopped Best Buy and found it alive and well on major vendors’ PC offerings. Lenovo may have publicly buried bloatware, but it’s anything but dead.
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