Lenovo Malware Scandals

Since Lenovo preinstalled spyware/malware they can no longer be trusted.

Don't buy a Lenovo laptop. You won't have control over it. They were installing ton of adware and a rootkit which is enabled even after formatting disk, and now this.

Lenovo huh, no thanks:https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html

Just a reminder that Lenovo is - unfortunately - not a company one can trust.https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.htmlhttps://thehackernews.com/2015/08/lenovo-rootkit-malware.htm...<a href="https

You mean the Lenovo thinkpads which come with tons of malware like superfish and different insecure plain http update mechanisms?

Why would you trust Lenovo on this?

How can you still buy a lenovo product? Superfish was a VERY a dangerous software to have preloaded. I'm pretty sure lenovo engineers knew exactly how dangerous this is and did absolutely nothing about it. And if no one in lenovo knew then that is much worse. In essence, the company installed software to spy on you, and I hear people defending their decision and say they will still buy their products. It does not matter if you use linux or not. This is not an honest mistake and I will neve

Lenovo installs malware by default, so nope.

I want to like Thinkpads for their hardware quality, but I cannot get over Lenovo stuffing malware into their systems, even after they got caught. How can I be put at ease?

Friendly reminder that Lenovo has repeatedly shipped laptops infested with malware and backdoors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_in...) sometimes doing so in exchange for money. They've also hidden malware in UEFI so that even reformatting your hard drive wouldn't help.In one case, after they were found out the