Lenovo caught preinstalling malware onto its laptops. The kicker? It's horrifically insecure.

[DrTaxi]

[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;47193733]The apps look terrible, but not any worse than they would on a low density screen.[/QUOTE]

Yes they do, unless you're on a CRT. Bilinear upscaling an image to fit a high density LCD screen looks worse than displaying the original image on a same-size screen whose native resolution matches the image.

[TheDecryptor]

Or if you're running at 200% scale, it uses nearest neighbour then.

Yeah, running at 150% scale or so looks bad due to that, there's a reason OS X/Gnome snap to integer scaling amounts.

[meharryp]

I had this on my laptop. I got really confused when steam started showing ads for baby food.

[meharryp]

Would anyone recommend installing ubuntu? Just check programs in control panel and there's so much bloat, there's one program called start menu and it isn't the windows start menu, it's just something with a load of links to dodgy search engines. I've had this laptop for almost 2 months and the only things I've installed are steam and chrome. Shame my HP laptop collapsed, that had no bloat at all and was great until recently.

[DrTaxi]

You could just do a fresh Windows install.

[Drake1o2]

[QUOTE=meharryp;47196681]Would anyone recommend installing ubuntu? Just check programs in control panel and there's so much bloat, there's one program called start menu and it isn't the windows start menu, it's just something with a load of links to dodgy search engines. I've had this laptop for almost 2 months and the only things I've installed are steam and chrome. Shame my HP laptop collapsed, that had no bloat at all and was great until recently.[/QUOTE]

If you don't mind the fact you won't be able to play all of your steamgames, I'd recommend ubuntu. Though I like it primarily because it just starts up and shuts down really fast. Like shit, by the time ubuntu is fully logged in and ready to go, windows might have gotten to the welcome screen.

[Breen]

And they didn't even have the decency to make it secure malware

Some people today...

[edits]

Welp, I don't know whats happened, but now I have like no trusted connections to any website. It seems to imply all the certificates are gone and for some reason I can't get them when going to any site. I have to add exceptions for everything and can't get access to anything with a https connection.

I fear I may be fucked.

[DrTaxi]

Now how did that happen?

It's also possible that your traffic is being intercepted by an attacker, of course.

[itisjuly]

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;47202525]Now how did that happen?

It's also possible that your traffic is being intercepted by an attacker, of course.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like he/someone deleted all trusted certs from browser/windows so now any cert is considered not trusted.

[edits]

[QUOTE=itisjuly;47202529]Sounds like he/someone deleted all trusted certs from browser/windows so now any cert is considered not trusted.[/QUOTE]

I looked at my certs during the Superfish stuff, didn't touch shit though.

oh no phishers have muh facepunch password ;~;

[DrTaxi]

[QUOTE=EditOutJ;47202657]I looked at my certs during the Superfish stuff, didn't touch shit though.

oh no phishers have muh facepunch password ;~;[/QUOTE]

Facepunch doesn't do SSL at all so they already have that anyway

[lordcrypto]

[QUOTE=EditOutJ;47202464]Welp, I don't know whats happened, but now I have like no trusted connections to any website. It seems to imply all the certificates are gone and for some reason I can't get them when going to any site. I have to add exceptions for everything and can't get access to anything with a https connection.

I fear I may be fucked.[/QUOTE]
reinstall

unfucking a a fucked cert directory is fun(aka not fun)