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Mayor who imposed 20mph speeding limits across Bristol is caught speeding
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Computer maker Lenovo has been forced to remove hidden adware that it was shipping on its laptops and PCs after users expressed anger.The company told the BBC in a statement: "Lenovo removed Superfish from the preloads of new consumer systems in January 2015. At the same time Superfish disabled existing Lenovo machines in the market from activating Superfish."Security expert Prof Alan Woodward said: "This bit of software is particularly naughty. People have shown that it can basically intercept everything and it could be really misused."According to security experts, it appears that Lenovo had given Superfish permission to issue its own certificates, allowing it to collect data over secure web connections, known in malware parlance as a man-in-the-middle attack."If someone went to, say, the Bank of America then Superfish would issue its own certificate pretending to be the Bank of America and intercept whatever you are sending back and forth," said Prof Woodward.Although Lenovo has said that it has removed Superfish from new machines and disabled it from others, it was unclear what the situation would be for machines where it had already been activated.It raises wider questions about the deals that computer manufacturers do with third parties and the amount of software that comes pre-installed on machines.
f you have ever bought a PC running Windows, you may have had to deal with quite a few programs and other annoyances installed by the manufacturer of the device.It is common that factory bought PCs ship with program trial versions installed that will run only for 30 or so days before they need to be purchased.Other annoyances may include desktop shortcuts to places like eBay on the Internet, or a bunch of applications by the manufacturer such as customer satisfactory surveys and such.While it is certainly possible to deal with those annoyances manually, by uninstalling or deleting them one by one, it is usually something that cannot be done quickly due to the sheer size of annoyances.PC Decrapifier is a long standing program that has been designed to deal with the majority of those programs automatically for you.The main idea behind the program is to have it analyze the system to provide you with recommendations what should and should not be removed.It is ideal for new PCs and less than ideal for PCs on which users have installed programs on already.
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