US launches investigation into Lenovo's advertising software pre-installed in laptops

Abstract: Yesterday, the reporter learned that the United States Connecticut State General Prosecutor George Japsen has been in the notebook computer pre-installed advertising software to investigate the incident, he will determine Lenovo and software developers Superfish whether the violation of Connecticut State related improper

Yesterday, the reporter learned that the United States Connecticut State General Prosecutor George Jepsen has been in the notebook computer pre-installed advertising software investigation, he will determine whether Lenovo and software developers Superfish violated the Connecticut State of unfair and fraudulent trade activities of the law.

Jepsen said in Monday that he had written to Lenovo and Superfish executives asking for more information about the software. Jepsen wants to know how many of Lenovo's PCs are pre-installed with Superfish software, the number of Connecticut State residents affected, the agreement between Lenovo and Superfish, and all the communications records of two companies working on the software.

Lenovo said in a statement: "We have seen the Jepsen mail, and will cooperate with this investigation." "Superfish has not received this email, but will also fully cooperate with the investigation.

"Superfish" is a software pre-installed in some of the laptops that Lenovo sells overseas, developed by a company with the same name in the United States. The software can insert ads into users ' Google search results. Information security agencies say the software's vulnerabilities pose a security risk to installation users. Researchers have discovered and published a password that, with this password and the appropriate software, could monitor the user or implant malware into its data stream with anyone on the same WiFi network as the Lenovo Computer user who installed the software.

Lenovo has removed Superfish from the pre-installed packages of consumer systems since January 2015, according to Lenovo. Meanwhile, in the current Lenovo computer, Superfish is also disabled. As an emergency response, Lenovo also released a tool that could automatically uninstall Superfish on February 2.