The time period where Superfish was included was a relatively small chunk of 2014, so you may not be impacted.
A good general guideline when buying an off-shelf Windows machine is to do a full wipe first. There may be some manufacturers who are immune to this, but assume everyone's included some bloatware. I find too many people who buy Windows machines start by attempting to manually remove this stuff, which is often a hopeless proposition. Clean wipe, reinstallation.
This isn't the reason why most startups/devs have moved to Apple, but it sure helps.
A good general guideline when buying an off-shelf Windows machine is to do a full wipe first. There may be some manufacturers who are immune to this, but assume everyone's included some bloatware. I find too many people who buy Windows machines start by attempting to manually remove this stuff, which is often a hopeless proposition. Clean wipe, reinstallation.
This isn't the reason why most startups/devs have moved to Apple, but it sure helps.