Security Issue for Lenovo Laptops
Lenovo bundled adware that has a horrible security vulnerability. This impacts Lenovo branded laptops (although reportedly not Thinkpad) sold since at least October, although there are reports of lapt...
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RayJayco wrote:
People easily forget...
Turbo Tax, McAfee, Symantec, the list is too long of products that have or have had malware in them... Google is one to watch as well...
Exactly. We all enjoy many "free" benefits from the Internet but there is no free lunch.
The Internet is (in addition to its many benefits) one big marketing tool and those that don't realize this are naive. The best we can do is learn to carefully use it.
Lenovo used very poor judgement in their version of spying on us and I think it was particularly insidious. But to think that turning to other companies will avoid corporations that pad their quarterly earnings statements by spying on us is wishful thinking.
Large companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Lenovo, etc, etc, are very sensitive to maintaining their reputation. Those that don't do not remain successful. We will see how Lenovo fares. But they have managed to thrive where IBM failed in the PC marketplace so I would not count them out.
