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This actually never affected Thinkpads.

• dm2 12y ago
  You'd think people would at least check to see if they were even affected, it clearly states "Lenovo never installed this software on any ThinkPad notebooks, nor any Lenovo desktops or smartphones." and no enterprise products or servers. I'm giving Lenovo the benefit of the doubt here. Look at all the potentially malicious crap Dell, HP, Compaq, and others have installed on computers over the years. Any experienced computer user should know and want to wipe the hard-drive and reinstall as soon as you get the computer, preferably from trusted sources, I'm not sure Microsoft's rules on customizing their reinstall disk. I wouldn't trust the reinstall partition either. You have to also consider that the Chinese government might see all the news about NSA and US government hacking and intercepting hardware and they could require or secretly implement bugs into almost any Chinese made product, that's always been an unfortunate concern with Lenovo. If Lenovo would push for more open standards of all computer components and have independent parties verify their internal processes, then that would go a long way to improving their credibility after this incident.