The world's largest PC manufacturer was found to install an adware called Superfish — which injects third-party ads on Google search results and other websites — on new machines.



From Windows Central:

If you bought a Lenovo computer recently, chances are it may have come with factory-installed adware. The world's largest PC manufacturer was found to install an adware called Superfish — which injects third-party ads on Google search results and other websites — on new machines.

Users from as far back as September starting noticing sponsored links in their search results. Lenovo acknowledged that it was installing adware, with community manager Mark Hopkins taking to the forum late last month to announce that Superfish would be temporarily removed

  Lenovo is installing adware on new PCs