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Lenovo To Stop Pre-Installing Controversial Software


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File photo of Lenovo tablets and mobile phones displayed during a news conference on the company's annual results in Hong KongBy Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's largest PC maker, said on Thursday it will no longer pre-install software that cybersecurity experts said was malicious and made devices vulnerable to hacking. Lenovo had come under fire from security researchers who said earlier on Thursday the company pre-installed a virus-like software from a company called Superfish on consumer laptops that hijacked web connections and allowed them to be spied upon.




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