Lenovo installed spyware on their laptops (not Thinkpads or tablets), a betrayal to customers. This spyware intercepts web traffic to target advertising but, of course, it is much worse than that.

In December I purchased a new Lenovo laptop from Tiger Direct. Lenovo has released the 'fix' for this and it claims it fixes all issues. I ran it and the problem is gone. This has to go under the heading "What were they thinking of'.

If you have one of these laptops, check out these:

The fix

The story: http://gcn.com/blogs/pulse/2015/02/lenovo-superfish.aspx
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I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.