I don't normally follow Lenovo, but I recently received one of those
'Whats Ap' e-mails from a non-computer-savvy friend, and asked
him, separately, what was happening. He has recently bought a Lenovo
laptop, with Win10, and says that it has loads of bloatware built
into it that encourages all sorts of nasty stuff to get downloaded (I
don't know the details). The PC is now back where it came from being
cleansed of all the bad stuff, but this will cost him money.
Personally, I think they should clean it for free, but that's up to him
to sort out.
I looked online, and it seems that the numbers of people unhappy with
Lenovo are legion.
Any comments from the floor?
On 18/09/2015 12:38, Davey wrote:
I don't normally follow Lenovo, but I recently received one of those
'Whats Ap' e-mails from a non-computer-savvy friend, and asked
him, separately, what was happening. He has recently bought a Lenovo
laptop, with Win10, and says that it has loads of bloatware built
into it that encourages all sorts of nasty stuff to get downloaded (I
don't know the details). The PC is now back where it came from being
cleansed of all the bad stuff, but this will cost him money.
Personally, I think they should clean it for free, but that's up to him
to sort out.
I looked online, and it seems that the numbers of people unhappy with
Lenovo are legion.
Any comments from the floor?
The Consumer Grade ones are pants. The Business Grade ones such as the
T400 and T600 series with the "pro"version of the OS are fine. Just
bought my son a re-imaged T420 and its a nice cleam laptop.
In any case Microsoft have added code to remove it via Windows Defender:-
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Lenovo-Microsoft-Move-to-Make-Superfish-Super-Gone-473867.shtml
On 18/09/2015 17:56, David Wade wrote:
On 18/09/2015 12:38, Davey wrote:
I don't normally follow Lenovo, but I recently received one of
those 'Whats Ap' e-mails from a non-computer-savvy friend, and
asked him, separately, what was happening. He has recently bought
a Lenovo laptop, with Win10, and says that it has loads of
bloatware built into it that encourages all sorts of nasty stuff
to get downloaded (I don't know the details). The PC is now back
where it came from being cleansed of all the bad stuff, but this
will cost him money. Personally, I think they should clean it for
free, but that's up to him to sort out.
I looked online, and it seems that the numbers of people unhappy
with Lenovo are legion.
Any comments from the floor?
The Consumer Grade ones are pants. The Business Grade ones such as
the T400 and T600 series with the "pro"version of the OS are fine.
Just bought my son a re-imaged T420 and its a nice cleam laptop.
In any case Microsoft have added code to remove it via Windows
Defender:-
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Lenovo-Microsoft-Move-to-Make-Superfish-Super-Gone-473867.shtml
found a list.:-
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2886278/how-to-remove-the-dangerous-superfish-adware-presintalled-on-lenovo-pcs.html
The T and X series pro laptops are not affected...
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