Not again, Lenovo. Seriously? You guessed it. They’ve been caught shipping their customers computers laden with privacy-unfriendly malware, showing that they haven’t learned the lessons from the public outcry over Superfish. This particular piece of malware runs daily, and collects personal usage data, which is then surreptitiously forwarded to Omniture – an online marketing and web analytics firm that was acquired by Adobe in 2009. Bizarrely, this particular piece of malware found its way to Lenovo’s ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs. These are the higher-end machines in Lenovo’s lineup, costing as much as an equivalent Apple Computer, and are aimed...
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