[E011]Lenovo to stop preinstalling controversial software

摘自：【Yahoo News Digest】

China’s Lenovo Group Ltd., the world’s largest PC maker, said on Thursday that it would no longer preinstall software that cybersecurity experts said was malicious[恶意的；恶毒的；蓄意的；怀恨的] and made devices vulnerable to hacking. Lenovo had come under fire from security researchers who said earlier on Thursday that the company had preinstalled viruslike software from a company called Superfish on consumer laptops that hijacked Web connections and allowed them to be spied[spy] upon. Users reported as early as last June that a program, also called Superfish, was “adware[广告软件；广告程序],” or software that automatically displays advertisements.

This is exactly what bad guys do with Trojans[特洛伊木马，木马程式；脱罗央群] and other malicious software to trick users to access fake sites to surveil[使受监视；对…实施监视]/monitor private communications.

Kevin Bocek, cybersecurity company Venafi executive

Lenovo stopped preloading the software on new computers in January, a company spokesman said. Lenovo also promised that it “will not preload this software in the future” and said it disabled the feature on its servers, which essentially kills the program on everyone’s computer. But it’s unclear which laptop models were affected. A Lenovo representative[代表；典型；众议员] said the company could not immediately answer these questions.