Lenovo joins hands with McAfee and Windows to remove SuperFish

Lenovo has finally decided to heed to its customers and has decided to seek help from McAfee and Windows Defender to throw out the malicious SuperFish. Lenovo has launched a tool to remove SuperFish wholly from the systems infected with it. It is an ad tracking software existing on a number of computers hosting windows that were sold out since last year. The tool completely removes SuperFish from the user’s system. Findings about SuperFish surfaced last week and showed how this deceiving hack was being used in Lenovo PCs for altering the browser’s security encryption. This puts the user’s computer at the risk of a third party attack. Even though Lenovo stood the ground by saying that the information tracking was not for any bad intent but rather for generating a better experience to the users, it didn’t stop users from questioning Lenovo about the entire operation of the software and how secure their computers are.

Now it seems that SuperFish has been removed completely. For those who have already benefited themselves with the tool released today the SuperFish is surely not present on your system anymore. Other security programs including Windows Defender and McAfee had already launched such tools. But Lenovo came out with the tool today, however the program was disengaged yesterday since the SuperFish was creating too much of a storm. Security is the first issue users think of when hacks and security breaches occur quite often.

But overall this has put Lenovo in a fix with lot of negative publicity all around. All this could have been avoided had this software not been installed. It would take a while for Lenovo to recover from the loss. Preinstalling such an adware on customer’s laptop and selling out their security for no good reason is sure not a good thing on the part of Lenovo. According to the reports the laptops sold since last September have this SuperFish adware. This adware injects unwanted shopping results while you search on Amazon, Google etc. The kind of behavior exhibited by SuperFish is more like that of a spyware and is being counted one of the most virulent adware.

SuperFish cuts out a big security hole in your browser. Anyone using your WiFi network can hack your browser and steal your passwords, bank credentials and any other information. Best advice is that if your Lenovo PC is infected with SuperFish, wipe the entire system and install the plain windows. Also change all the passwords. This is similar to the 2005 scandal of Sony DRM rootkit in which if someone used Sony’s CDs, it automatically installed malware on the user’s system. Another user with the same malware could hack this system. But Sony’s motive was to stop people from ripping of their CDs for free. After a user posted about the SuperFish and the problems it poses, it got all the hackers around the world trying to exploiting this security hole.