Re: Lenovo Pre-instaling adware/spam - Superfish -... - Page 3 - Lenovo Community

Brand new Y40 here, and the same crappy experience.

Just received my laptop, booted up, started browsing and this annoying Superfish VisualDiscovery bull**bleep** started popping up on me... **bleep**??!!

 

So Lenovo, a supposedly renowned hardware maker, is pushing crapware into its customers??

I'm stunned. Completely.

 

And please, don't give me that PUP ("Potentially Unwanted Program") nonsense. This is adware, plain and simple.

 

Also, yes; I could wipe the whole thing out and get a fresh OS install (which I'll probably end up doing anyway), but that would require me to obtain a new OS license (i.e.: pay for it, if I want Windows).

Yet... wait! I have already paid for a Windows license here!!! (because Lenovo forced me to, as they won't sell the machine OS-less). However, I only got a bloated, spammy version, which I cannot change, beacuse all is embedded into the recovery image...

 

I feelscammed.

 

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