[Hidden-tech] Lenovo pre-installed adware

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:25:37 -0500 "Ed Bride" <Ed at edbride-pr.com> wrote:

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> Staple's does this sort of thing, but there are plenty of boutique computer
> shops that also do it. Here in the Berkshires, my go-to guy is Dave Bimbane
> of Computers R Us (Lenox). Your waiting time at Staple's is likely to be
> shorter.

There just aren't that many of these sorts of businesses and too much of how
MS-Windows is marketed suggests that end-users can be their own admins, with
often disasterious results, that have to be 'fixed' and places like Staple's
or at some boutique computer shop.

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> Ed
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> Heller
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 7:56 AM
> To: Roger Williams
> Cc: Hidden Tech
> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Lenovo pre-installed adware
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> This whole thread is a clear argument *against* the idea of OEMs
> pre-installing *any* [O/S] software. Not that I expect end-users to be
> installing O/S (or really any) software either (that is often a completely
> different can of worms). What is really needed is a sort of 'Jiffy Lube'
> type of business for computers -- places where non-techies can go to have
> their computers 'serviced' -- from O/S installs to 'regular maintaince' (eg
> regular software updates and general admin work).  Someplace that is a
> 'disintersted third party', that is not in the pay of some outside interest
> that would have any influence relating to which O/S or what O/S (or other
> software) settings or default preferences, etc.
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> Having an entity with a 'vested' interest installing any software is really
> a bad idea.
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> At Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:01:21 -0500 Roger Williams <roger at qux.com> wrote:
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> > Those who are concerned their PC may contain this critical 
> > vulnerability (all of the recent Lenovo G, U, Y, Z, S, Flex, MIIX, 
> > YOGA, and E Series) can check at https://filippo.io/Badfish/. (The 
> > website was designed by one of the same researchers who published a 
> > site to scan websites for the catastrophic Heartbleed weakness in 
> > OpenSSL.)
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