Recently,
news broke out that Lenovo had pre-installed Superfish, a malware
afflicted software which made laptops vulnerable to hackers. Though the
company said that they would stop pre-installing this software, they
have also released a tool to help users remove the adware from their
laptops.
Now,
according to Microsoft’s malware detection data, Superfish has been
removed from 2,50,000 Windows PCs. Microsoft reveals that the number of
infected PCs were around 60,000 on February 21, and have now reduced to
around 3,000.
The
company has reportedly helped clean up a quarter of a million Lenovo
PCs from February 20 to March 4 using its Malicious Software Removal
Tool (MSRT) that includes a set of ‘fingerprints’ to detect and delete
malware.
Along
with Microsoft, Lenovo and McAfee had also released their tools to
cleanse Superfish. Lenovo has also published its step-by-step guide for
users to manually fix the adware.
The
Superfish adware is capable of installing a fake root certificate into
the Windows certificate store that appears to be genuine. The browser
will trust all the fake certificates generated by Superfish, paving way
for hackers to easily crack into it.
Posted by : Gizmeon
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