Remember all those apologies from Lenovo after their stealth installation of the SuperFish adware was revealed? Apparently they didn’t really mean them.
As the old saying goes, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Unless you, too, want to end up a 50 year joke like Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the football, you’d better think twice about buying products from this company. If you do, you have no one but yourself to blame when the inevitable happens.
Lenovo has forfeited any expectation of trust from their customers. And who would want to deal with a company so lacking in common sense that they install another root kit on their computers less than 6 months after being excoriated for doing the same thing?
I know lots of people who love their Lenovo laptops and dismissed the concerns over SuperFish on the grounds that they wiped the machine and installed Linux. This latest exploit hides the malware in the system’s firmware where it can’t be removed. I’ll bet that when Lenovo decides it’s to their advantage to do so, they’ll find a way to hook into Linux too.