Lenovo Has Been Selling Laptops with Malware Pre-Installed

Yahoo Tech ^ | Feb. 19, 2015

[the_individual2014]

I work as an IT where I am at in NH and got this in my email at work today for a link to a video shows how to manually remove it, for those that are IT themselves just spreading the info.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/02/19/lenovo-caught-installing-adware-new-computers/

[wally_bert]

Will see about getting a copy.

[wally_bert]

Damn an HP.

[wally_bert]

I have one that is 4 or 5 years old, hardly ever use it.

[Baltimore ken]

I bought a Lenovo in March of last year not knowing the Red Chinese connection. The previous installed malware certainly explains why I had 150 virus in my computer.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Thanks for that. I put Belarc Adviser on my USB that I’m putting together for utilities.

[Organic Panic]

It’s called Windows.

[minnesota_bound]

#27 Here is my Windows 7 key : )
Key: FK8F8-KMF3Y-*****-*****-*****

[BBB333]

It’s normal.

[Labyrinthos]

The simple solution is to reformat the hard drive and do a clean install of the OS. You will now have a system that is free of malware and crapware.

[BBB333]

I apologize for pressing send before I was through with my thought.

I assure you it is not your Lenovo computer - the same happens to me on this computer, a Mac running Windows 7 Pro within a virtual machine inside the Mac.

It also happens when I use the Mac's browser, Safari.

It is normal as long as you have cookies residing within your browser, Mozilla in your case.

Best

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Out of curiosity I did a search and found a smaller, faster freeware utility that extracts Windows software keys.

https://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/

I tried it and it works.