If you have a Lenovo computer get rid of it

[Anonymous]

Lenovo has once again been caught installing spyware on its laptops and workstations without the user's permission or knowledge.

This is not first time Lenovo has allegedly installed Spyware onto consumers PCs. Earlier this year, Lenovo was caught red-handed for selling laptops pre-installed with "Superfish malware" that opened up doors for hackers. And In August, Lenovo again got caught installing unwanted and "Non removable crapware" into part of the BIOS reserved for custom drivers.

Now this time, They forced a software program, called "Lenovo Customer Feedback Program 64" that operates daily on these systems and can be categorized as Spyware.

[cc]

You are correct .. at least on data collection .. not sure what they would gain with backdoor for hacking and don't see much about that



3 million fine and govt monitoring for next 20 yrs + forced to show clients how to remove spyware



A LOT of businesses use that machine - They compete with HP for corporate sales



Company was selling data collected .. the fkrs

[Anonymous]

You are correct .. at least on data collection .. not sure what they would gain with backdoor for hacking and don't see much about that



3 million fine and govt monitoring for next 20 yrs + forced to show clients how to remove spyware



A LOT of businesses use that machine - They compete with HP for corporate sales



Company was selling data collected .. the fkrs

To spy on individuals in case users might be in the goverment or military, stop buying think pads or idea pads, what do you expect from a Chinese company

[cc]

Ya, I'll buy that



I'm surprised it took so long to discover



We need boatloads of counter spies desperately

[Anonymous]

I was tempted to buy one because it cheap but decided on dell instead, acer and Asus are prolly OK because they're made in Taiwan

[Vancouver]

I use Asus laptop. Supposed to be made in Taiwan but they have manufacturing facilities in China which probably have nothing to do with software.

[Anonymous]

My wife and I are trying to buy products not made in China.

[cc]

Dell is reliable .. had a great experimental Dell Laptop for a few years ... very reliable, very fast



Hey VG, I've had a Asus i7 desktop for many years  .. . still running like a dream



Mind you, I bought it just after SSD's came out  .. They were new,  so played safe and had an Intel (to stay on safe side) 250 installed when I bought it



With the cheap speed of SSD, & good components  it still flies faster than most new machines

I'd do Asus again

[cc]

My wife and I are trying to buy products not made in China.

Good stuff!! .. Yes. I have all my life gone to pains to make sure purchases were no made there ... initially based  on quality .. now mainly on "principle"



It's our nature to buy only what we need so we do our homework and good quality & good  value non-China items

have from Day 1

[Odinson]

My laptop is an old Toshiba.. 6 years old..



The chassis is almost completely plastic and it has broken in many places.





Its cooler fan malfunctioned over a year ago.





I took it apart, cleaned the fan and put new lubricant in it... Works like a charm..





Btw.. The multipurpose vaseline is the best lubricant for the fan...



Other lubricants dont last a month.

[Anonymous]

.....since you asked....



I'm not a Windows user as I use Mac OS X, Linux & UNIX.



I've always found Windows was too invasive.



Anything thT runs on Windows will automatically spy on you. Guaranteed.



There's beginning to be so many mainstream applications found on Windows or Mac that work on  for Linux &  its free.



So why bother with Windows? Who needs it?



Shity operating system anyways

[Anonymous]

.....since you asked....



I'm not a Windows user as I use Mac OS X, Linux & UNIX.



I've always found Windows was too invasive.



Anything thT runs on Windows will automatically spy on you. Guaranteed.



There's beginning to be so many mainstream applications found on Windows or Mac that work on  for Linux &  its free.



So why bother with Windows? Who needs it?



Shity operating system anyways

What kinda Linux using

[Anonymous]

My wife and I are trying to buy products not made in China.

Good stuff!! .. Yes. I have all my life gone to pains to make sure purchases were no made there ... initially based  on quality .. now mainly on "principle"



It's our nature to buy only what we need so we do our homework and good quality & good  value non-China items

have from Day 1

It's my goal too cc, but it's not easy to boycott China made.

[Odinson]

My PC is like the Millenium Falcon..



Looks like a piece of junk but its fast.

[Anonymous]

Two Asus, one Dell, one Acer (in order of newest to oldest). The Dell was the only one not to ship with bloatware, I reformatted and reinstalled Windows on the other laptops immediately after purchase. Not for any reason other than I didn't see any need to be wasting CPU cycles on background processes for any software I had no intention of using. Not a fan of Lenovo (due to their chonkiness), even less of a fan of HP (due to their history of proprietary hardware and unwillingness to provide anything past the most basic of hardware specs). Toshiba... had an AMD quad core from them a few years ago, reliable but pricey and I sold it on for $200 more than what I paid for it in the first six months after I'd bought the Dell as a replacement.





Consumer machines invariably ship with a ton of software (usually trials) from companies who offset the cost of production to entice the end user into after sales service. No matter what you purchase, there is no reason whatsoever for you to not clear all that crap out. As for stuff that gets hardcoded into the firmware... well, you'll be stuck with that if you make an ill-advised choice at the point of sale. There's only one or two Stink Pads I'd consider getting and only if I wanted a laptop capable of playing old DOS games. Lenovo blows almost as much dick as HP does. Would not recommend.