[Red Badger]

Well, that saves tons of time..................

[NorthMountain]

Lenovo was banned at my workplace years ago, for trying to phone home.

Lenovo == Peoples’ Republic of China.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[WayneS]

Who is this Malware guy and how did they get him to fit inside a computer cabinet?

Malware... Must be Italian.

[Gay State Conservative]

Lenovo = Red China = No thanks

[Regulator]

It’s a feature, not a bug!

[Pontiac]

Lenovo customers have already paid for Windows in their laptops, so they will have to shell out another $120 for a copy of Windows 8.1.

People still pay for Windows?!!!

PT Barnum said it best “There’s a sucker born every minute.”

[Veggie Todd]

[Responsibility2nd]

Lenovo's New Marketing Slogan....

[sten]

professional malware. walware you can trust.

[Fresh Wind]

HP does the same thing.

[MaxMax]

This is why I build my own. There's always some jerk out there willing to sell you
down the road for a few more nickels, and that's all your security is worth to them.

[Utilizer]

Not a problem. Any new pc arrives here, we immediately dump the pre-installed crap OS and install linux. No problems whatsoever for years now, and Opera rounds out the install.

Have several extra ‘doze COA and sernos lying about as well going back to 98SE at least.

[circlecity]

I don’t have a Lenove computer but I’ve noticed that If I go to amazon and start checking prices on a product, lets say running shoes, and check out several brands of running shoes when I’m finished and start going to other web sites I frequent I start seeing advertisements for running shoes virtually everywhere I go. This happens virtually every time I shop for a product on Amazon.

[Secret Agent Man]

Lenovo are Chinese pcs.

This kind of crap was warned of, repeatedly, before IBM sold their pc business to Lenovo.

[GeronL]

I hear they come off the Chinese factories with malware installed

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Lenovo customers have already paid for Windows in their laptops, so they will have to shell out another $120 for a copy of Windows 8.1.

Not true. All you have to do is use something like Belarc Adviser (free at http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html) to extract your software key so you can reinstall the operating system using your current legal key.

Then you go to Microsoft's site and download the ISO image of your version of Windows, burn it to a CD/DVD and install.

http://www.howtogeek.com/186775/how-to-download-windows-7-8-and-8.1-installation-media-legally/

[Boogieman]

While I would never trust anything made by Lenovo, they aren’t the only company to do stuff like this. I quit buying gateways over a decade ago because they were preloading their computers with a bunch of adware.

[Varsity Flight]

Warm-up plan for all computers, by those that have orchestrated Human Being Mortgage Trafficking known as ACA (Extortion-Care). Lock you out of everything on your computer until your Human Mortgage is paid off to their insurance-bank.

To be coordinated with their Trafficking Exchange System.

This is why they want total control of the internet.

Human Trafficking,
Arbeitsziehungslager

[Organic Panic]

It’s called Windows.