A pretty shocking thing came to light this evening – Lenovo is installing adware that uses a “man-in-the-middle” attack to break secure connections on affected laptops in order to access sensitive data and inject advertising.
more here............http://marcrogers.org/2015/02/19/lenovo-installs-adware-on-customer-laptops-and-compromises-all-ssl/
and another article on same topic titled "Extracting the Superfish Certificate"
here....http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/extracting-superfish-certificate.html#.VOYQ1PnF-So
more here............http://marcrogers.org/2015/02/19/lenovo-installs-adware-on-customer-laptops-and-compromises-all-ssl/
and another article on same topic titled "Extracting the Superfish Certificate"
here....http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/extracting-superfish-certificate.html#.VOYQ1PnF-So