I also discovered the Superfish app fairly quickly (I use NoScript in Firefox and noticed best-deals-products.com being blocked everywhere). I decided to reinst

I also discovered the Superfish app fairly quickly (I use NoScript in Firefox and noticed best-deals-products.com being blocked everywhere). I decided to reinstall Windows from Microsoft because I no longer trusted the Lenovo OEM version. It was actually pretty straightforward to download the installer from Microsoft [1] and the drivers from Lenovo (wireless didn't work until I installed the driver so definitely don't do this without an ethernet connection or a USB drive with the drivers). I generally followed this guide [2] (it was written before Microsoft let you download the installer for free so ignore the part about buying the media). This is easier to do when the computer is still new and you haven't taken the time to set it up how you like though.... [1]: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-re... [2]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/flushing-the-crapware-a-guide-to-reinstalling-windows-8-on-a-new-pc/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/flushi...