[Cryptography] Lenovo laptops with preloaded adware and an evil CA

Paul Wouters paul at cypherpunks.ca
Thu Feb 19 17:59:17 EST 2015


On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, John Young wrote:

> We have a Lenovo laptop, older than that reportedly infected with Superfish
> adware. A search does not find the program.
>
> Coincidentally, surely, a file named "superfish.js" appears in the Silent 
> Circle
> installation instructions:
>
> http://cryptome.org/superfish-js.jpg

http://plugins.jquery.com/superfish/

It's a jquery plugin with the same name as the malware ?

Paul


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