How fucking sleazy can you get? People pay good money for your shit and you put a fucking adware program there?
Reminds me of how Dell was doing this with similar programs on new Windows 7 loads around 2009/10/11
Weird, I've bought my laptop like half an year ago and it didn't have that program on it.
I bought a Lenovo laptop last year, it came with a bunch of shit, but it was all easily turned off, and after wiping the entire drive it was fine.
[QUOTE=Plaster;47170892]Weird, I've bought my laptop like half an year ago and it didn't have that program on it.[/QUOTE]
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Maybe that would be why?
Besides, I do think it is best to format the shit out of anything you buy and start from scratch. Fuck what they did.
Turns out, it isn't that simple though, and I'm not really into writing custom firmware to harddrives that are inherently infected.
[QUOTE=Plaster;47170892]Weird, I've bought my laptop like half an year ago and it didn't have that program on it.[/QUOTE]
You probably have business model (px40, wx40, ..); they didn't come loaded most of the 3rd party crap their other models run out of the box.
[QUOTE=Kirth;47170974]You probably have business model (px40, wx40, ..); they didn't come loaded most of the 3rd party crap their other models run out of the box.[/QUOTE]
I don't think the G50-30 is a business model though.
[QUOTE=mastersrp;47170912]Maybe that would be why?
Besides, I do think it is best to format the shit out of anything you buy and start from scratch. Fuck what they did.
Turns out, it isn't that simple though, and I'm not really into writing custom firmware to harddrives that are inherently infected.[/QUOTE]
Or
[quote]Superfish was preloaded on to a select number of consumer models only.[/quote]
I have a laptop from 1 year ago, how do I disable this shit?
This is why I reformat laptops I buy with the stock windows disk.
That's not a nickname, that's literally the name on the cert.
I work at a repair shop / bespoke build shop, even with brand new laptops that we sell I always replace the factory install with our own install images. Just the shit they pre-load causes problems all the time for our customers, a lot of them being rather elderly too due to the area we are based in. Doesn't help any one pre-loading unwanted BS onto machines.
On a brand new Lenovo micro desktop we bought (Preloaded with windows 8.1) had a "start menu" covering the windows logo at the bottom right of the screen. It would crash non-stop and display adverts at the side of the "start menu". This was a commercial machine too, what the hell.
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It would be nice if laptop manufactures stopped shipping all that pre-loaded crap onto their computers.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;47172172]It would be nice if laptop manufactures stopped shipping all that pre-loaded crap onto their computers.[/QUOTE]
They do it cause they get paid a whole load of money by owners of software they preload.
[QUOTE=Kirth;47170974]You probably have business model (px40, wx40, ..); they didn't come loaded most of the 3rd party crap their other models run out of the box.[/QUOTE]
Their Think line is coming with more and more crap though. It's ridiculous.
I bought a Lenovo laptop just about a week ago and yes it was bundled with this adware crap. It prevented me from accessing certain sites, because it injected itself into it and fucked things up.
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It's a shame, because this laptop is fantastic. However I will never buy a Lenovo product again after this.
Most store bought computers now a days come with pre loaded with shit we don't want. But this takes the cake.
I bought a Lenovo laptop a while back and people aren't kidding when it comes pre-installed with a ton of garbage. When I first got it, it would hang on 100% CPU usage constantly, which calmed down when I removed most of it
My patience with Lenovo has been draining steadily. I bought a Y410p from them, it showed up broken, and it took over a month to get it replaced, and the replacement wasn't even a Y410p, it was a Y50 (better computer yes but it still took a month). Then that Y50 gets fucked in the charging port and catches fire. Now I read about this, and it concerns me. Lenovo in my eyes is very quickly becoming a brand I won't buy again.
I recently got a Yoga and despite the specs, it lagged a lot because of all the preinstalled garbage.
Usually the first thing I do is install chrome, with this the first thing I did was uninstall norton and it got significantly faster
[QUOTE=Dr.C;47173396]I recently got a Yoga and despite the specs, it lagged a lot because of all the preinstalled garbage.
Usually the first thing I do is install chrome, with this the first thing I did was uninstall norton and it got significantly faster[/QUOTE]
Whenever I get a new laptop I tend to clean install Windows. (Or use a Linux system, whatever works at that time.)
This shit has to also stop with phones too
there are so many worthless apps on my phone
skype doesn't even work
what idiot would need NFL mobile
and just... a ton of CRAP and I can't remove ANY of it.
[QUOTE=J!NX;47174063]This shit has to also stop with phones too
there are so many worthless apps on my phone
skype doesn't even work
what idiot would need NFL mobile
and just... a ton of CRAP and I can't remove ANY of it.[/QUOTE]
Samsung does that too, and they can't be removed
I have a lenovo but I had to install windows 7 on it. And I don't recall that superfish junk.
I'm guessing its a shitty adware tool from the cd with the drivers, my asrock mobo had a lotta junk on it but I'm glad they added a option for important drivers only.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;47176708]Samsung does that too, and they can't be removed[/QUOTE]
Well it can be removed by rooting it and then deleting them, but that apparently voids the warranty.
Should be mandatory for phone manufacturers to offer a easy way for customers to remove all the software gunk on the phones without going all technical.
[QUOTE=Van-man;47178673]Well it can be removed by rooting it and then deleting them, but that apparently voids the warranty.
Should be mandatory for phone manufacturers to offer a easy way for customers to remove all the software gunk on the phones without going all technical.[/QUOTE]
I know, it just generally fucks up people who doesn't know much about technology.
Also, I tried to remove it. It's dictionary definition of tedious.
The best way to do it is with a custom rom, but as far as I know, Samsung isn't that happy with those.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;47178690]The best way to do it is with a custom rom, but as far as I know, Samsung isn't that happy with those.[/QUOTE]
Also it's probably possible network providers use some dumb way to connect to their services or some shit and custom roms might break it.
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