Tag Archives: Superfish

Superfish: Windows Defender fails to clean properly

Posted on 2015-02-23 by guenni

[German edition]Today I like to bring your attention to a nasty part of the Lenovo Superfish issue. Currently many media reflecting Ed Bott's ZDNet article, that Windows Defender will detect Superfish and removes it with the Superfish Inc. Root certificates. … Continue reading →

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Komodia SSL certificates and hijacking tech are widely spread

Posted on 2015-02-20 by guenni

[German]Yesterday I reported the Lenovo Superfish adware 'incident' (Lenovo ships Superfish adware preinstalled on systems). Today it seems that the problem is even wide spread. Komodia SSL certificates and their SSL hijacking sdk are used in more products. Advertising

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How to find weak passwords in Active Directory and eliminate them with PowerShell

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Lenovo ships Superfish adware preinstalled on systems

Posted on 2015-02-19 by guenni

Till now I've quoted Lenovo notebooks as a solid foundation for business purposes. But today this image was badly destroyed – it was uncovered, that Lenovo was shipping Malware/Adware preinstalled on their systems. Advertising

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