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

John Young jya at pipeline.com
Thu Feb 19 18:13:10 EST 2015


Correct.

At 05:59 PM 2/19/2015, Paul Wouters wrote:
>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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