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FTC Official Tells Consumers To Use Caution With Superfish Software

Consumers with Lenovo tablets need to remove Superfish software, change their passwords, use caution when using public Wi-Fi networks and check their personal banking information, Aditi Jhaveri, FTC consumer education specialist, said in a blog post Friday. Lenovo shipped products…

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that included Superfish software between September and December, but the software has been disabled since January, the company said in a statement last week (see 1502190046). Lenovo was hit with a lawsuit seeking class-action status by a blogger last week for alleged privacy violations stemming from its use of Superfish software (see 1502230061). “Although Lenovo has announced that they have discontinued pre-installing Superfish on its notebooks, some Lenovo notebooks sold today may still have Superfish pre-installed,” Jhaveri said.