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Is there the Superfish Malware on your computer?

Superfish is software that supposedly was meant to enhance the shopping experience of users, according to Lenovo. Lenovo has an article admitting that they pre-installed Superfish  on many of their laptops. But look at what the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team says about Superfish “This software intercepts users’ web traffic to provide targeted advertisements”.

Lenovo has provided a procedure and software to remove/uninstall Superfish from their computers. Here is the link: (Removing Superfish from Lenovo Computers). But read this page first and check to see if your computer is one of theses ones listed below:

Superfish may have appeared on these models:
G Series: G410, G510, G710, G40-70, G50-70, G40-30, G50-30, G40-45, G50-45, G40-80
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
S Series: S310, S410, S40-70, S415, S415Touch, S435, S20-30, S20-30Touch
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
E Series: E10-30
Edge Series: Lenovo Edge 15

Source: Lenovo.com

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