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Interestingly enough, the company that wrote Superfish (Komodia) is based in Palo Alto, California. I don't think it was malicious intent by Lenovo to install

Interestingly enough, the company that wrote Superfish (Komodia) is based in Palo Alto, California. I don't think it was malicious intent by Lenovo to install adware on user's computers, rather, they were negligent to the fact they were dealing with an incompetent software vendor. I wouldn't hesitate to buy another Lenovo.

subsection1h 12y ago
> they were negligent to the fact they were dealing with an incompetent software vendor. Was Lenovo's repeated downplaying of the problem also just negligence?
calbear81 12y ago
What would be considered malicious? They intended to and did install adware and was paid for it. It was exactly their intention.
PhantomGremlin 12y ago
> the company that wrote Superfish (Komodia) is based in Palo Alto, California How do you reach this conclusion? 1) komodia.com/about doesn't have any geographic information on it. 2) Their whois entry says Israel, but is (deliberately?) misleading. Is that phone number real? Registrant Phone: +00.6142772739 The leading digits "614" don't match the calling code for Israel which is 972, nor any Palo Alto area code. Instead it's Columbus, Ohio? 3) It's hard to be sure what was recently on their website, because of a claimed DDOS. But archive.org still has some old info https://web.archive.org/web/20150220024525/http://www.komodia.com/contact-us/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150220024525/http://www.komodi... which points to a PO Box in Israel, and gives a phone number with an Israel calling code.