Lenovo laptops come preinstalled with the company’s own software and utilities. However, an accidental infection of Superfish, a malware that alters your search results to show up ads and also tampers with your computers security for opening the back door to the hacker.
However, the company is quick to act on one of the worst accidents in its history. Lenovo has created a Superfish removal tool, that can clean up your computer of the program and certificates it leaves behind. The tool is simple, quick, self-running software, which needs no installation. Make sure you close all browsers before you run the tool.
If you want to make sure that you aren’t infected, even if you are not a Lenovo user, you can download the test utility to find out if your computer is infected by Superfish. Click on this link and a new browser window will open up and test if your system is infected. The test takes a few seconds only.
Alternatively, you can also update Windows Defender, which can help clean out the Superfish malware.
