SUPERFISH

      Because Vermont has such a strong tie to IBM, a significant number of Vermont residents have bought Lenovo computers.
     Area artists and business users alike may use Lenovo products for work or pleasure. I do photo editing and engineering on a ThinkPad. And I'm writing this advisory on it today.
     Lenovo installed a program called "Superfish" on some consumer notebooks shipped between September 2014 and now. Superfish is a nefarious and hidden advertising software that leaves laptops wide open to takeover by malicious adversaries. With Superfish on board, a bad guy can fake your laptop into trusting fake banks, fake health exchange sites, fake Facebook, fake Gmail and more.
     Hundreds of thousands of customers are vulnerable to the attacks that could move your passwords and personal data directly to criminals.
     This advisory applies only to Lenovo-branded consumer notebooks, tablets, and ultra books; Lenovo never installed that program on the "Think" series (ThinkPad, ThinkCenter, ThinkStation, ThinkServer) or the Lenovo Desktop and System x products.

Superfish may have appeared on these models:
G Series: G410, G510, G710, G40-70, G50-70, G40-30, G50-30, G40-45, G50-45, G40-80
U Series: U330P, U430P, U330Touch, U430Touch, U530Touch
Y Series: Y430P, Y40-70, Y50-70, Y40-80, Y70-70
Z Series: Z40-75, Z50-75, Z40-70, Z50-70, Z70-80
S Series: S310, S410, S40-70, S415, S415Touch, S435, S20-30, S20-30Touch
Flex Series: Flex2 14D, Flex2 15D, Flex2 14, Flex2 15, Flex2 Pro, Flex 10
MIIX Series: MIIX2-8, MIIX2-10, MIIX2-11, MIIX 3 1030
YOGA Series: YOGA2Pro-13, YOGA2-13, YOGA2-11, YOGA3 Pro
E Series: E10-30
Edge Series: Edge 15

     [Lenovo reports that Superfish has completely disabled server side interactions (since January, 2015) on all Lenovo products so that the software product is no longer active, effectively disabling Superfish for all products in the market. Lenovo stopped loading the application in January and will not preload this software in the future.]
     If you think Superfish may be installed on your computer, visit the following links for more info and to learn how to spot it and uninstall it:

Lenovo Adware Could Steal Your Private Data
LENOVO STATEMENT ON SUPERFISH
How to Remove Superfish From Your Computer
Bloatware 101: How (all) manufacturers make your PC slower

Last Updated February 26, 2015

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