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McAfee updates fully remove Lenovo’s dangerous Superfish adware
Microsoft’s stayed mum during Thursday’s uproar about Lenovo installing dangerous, invasive “Superfish” adware on new PCs —adware that hijacks allsecure HTTPS connections on affected PCs. But early Friday morning, Redmond quietly issued a sly condemnation of Lenovo’s folly, updating its Windows Defender antivirus solution to eradicate both the adware itself and the rogue self-signed certificate that allows Superfish to compromise encrypted web traffic.
