Customers of Lenovo are complaining that the manufacturer on several of its laptops Superfish-adware supplies. This software injects advertisements in the websites and the default is on the background. Probably the adware, all months included.
The Superfish-adware is on the Yoga 2 Pro-laptops from Lenovo, as appears from experiences of Tweakers. Also on the supportfora of the manufacturer mention is made of the included adware: users of the Lenovo Y50, Z40, Z50 and G50 set up Superfish on their laptops to have found. Lenovo on the forums with no response given. On the basis of the user experience, the manufacturer, the adware certainly a few months.
Superfish, created by several scanners as malware is identified, injects ads in web sites: there appear pop-ups with images of products. That pop-ups can also ensure that websites do not properly render. Superfish is running after the initial start-up automatically in the background if the process visualdiscovery.exe.
It is possible to get the adware off by Visual Discovery to stop. Moreover, the adware may also simply be uninstalled from the folder with preinstalled Lenovo software. On the Yoga 3 Pro from Lenovo is Superfish not found. Laptopfabrikanten with their system almost always be of additional software, which sometimes are of third parties against payment. Adware pop-ups shows does not happen often. Lenovo could not yet respond to questions from Tweakers on the install of the adware.
Ceci n’est pas adware (but a picture of the adware)