I was under the impression that Lenovo supplies a lot of computers to government and enterprise contracts around the world. Was Superfish only installed on consumer oriented devices, like the ones typically found at Best Buy? I realize most large enterprise would re-image their computers before deployment. I'm shocked that Lenovo would release such a statement. The damage to its credibility is significant.
Yes, it was only installed on their consumer oriented machines. Their T model Thinkpad don't have it installed.
Now the question is of course what else are they installing and what other yet undiscovered issues we'll find. It sounds like FUD but so far based on their response, they seem either incompetent (stupid) or malicious. And I don't exactly like either...
I never quite got this distinction between consumer and non consumer machines, when you can buy high end ThinkPads (but not the blocky T models) at a retailer, and are just as nice as big old blocky good old ThinkPads.
I'm really interested if a high end (but "consumer") ThinkPad like http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Lenovo-T... that you can buy at a retail store (in this case, a special MSFT Store version that has plain Windows supposedly on it) was infected.
I loved (well still do) my T model. It has a strong magnesium case. Very solid. Heck it lasted 7 years. Including travel and other abuse.
It didn't have bloatware crap installed (as say US govt or big companies would not like that). It came with a smart card reader and such. Had a fingerprint scanner (back when there were not common).
Initially also they didn't have all these "consumer" models (Y,G,W,...).
