Dangerous Super Fish Pre Installed In Lenovo Pc

How To Remove Super Fish And It's Certificate From Your Lenovo  PC

What is Super fish?

Superfish is a piece of software that Lenovo has admitted to pre-installing on many of its laptops to "enhance the shopping experience" of its users. However, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team calls Superfish a "man-in-the-middle attack" because of how it "intercepts users' web traffic to provide targeted advertisements."

Why is Super fish so dangerous?

Superfish snoops in on your web browsing and secretly slips ads into webpages. But the really dangerous part is that it's pre-installed with root certificate authority, which allows it to impersonate any server's security certificate.

If this certificate is compromised by hackers, you could be tricked into logging in to a fake website and giving hackers your password. Because of Super fish, any of your accounts—including encrypted bank accounts—could be easily compromised

Which computers are affected?

According to Lenovo, Superfish may have been pre-installed
on the following models:

E Series:E10-30

G Series:G410, G510, G710, G40-70, G50-70, G40-30, G50-30, G40-45, G50-45, G40-80

S Series:S310, S410, S40-70, S415, S415Touch, S435, S20-30, S20-30Touch

U Series:U330P, U430P, U330Touch, U430Touch, U530Touch

Y Series:Y430P, Y40-70, Y50-70, Y40-80, Y70-70

Z Series:Z40-75, Z50-75, Z40-70, Z50-70, Z70-80

Edge Series:Edge 15

Flex Series:Flex2 14D, Flex2 15D, Flex2 14, Flex2 15, Flex2 Pro, Flex 10

MIIX Series:MIIX2-8, MIIX2-10, MIIX2-11, MIIX 3 1030

YOGA Series:YOGA2Pro-13, YOGA2-13, YOGA2-11, YOGA3 Pro

Source: Lenovo