We all hate bloatwares, no doubt about that. There are many of us who don’t care bloatware and just let it slide, but the real issue comes when built-in bloatwares are causing critical security issues – and that time has come, again.
Not particularly sure what’s up with Lenovo, but last year there’s a great security problem with their laptops regarding Superfish, a data-gathering piece of software that sends all the data back to Lenovo’s servers and then pump curated ads back to the users. This posed a great security flaw last year, and was urged to be removed completely. This year however, there’s a brand new software that makes everyone nervous.
Lenovo Accelerator Application is a piece of software that Lenovo included in each of their desktop and laptop sold, except for ThinkPad and ThinkStation devices. Also, it’s bundled with Windows 10 installations. The security flaw is very similar case to what Superfish is about – as a middle-man can hijack and sniff all the data. Lenovo claims that this is not as serious as Superfish, as the potential impact is only to those who uses “remote code execution by an attacker with local network access”. Lenovo posted a list of laptops that are affected, and how to remove the Lenovo Accelerator Application once and for all.
On another serious and important note – HP, Dell, Acer, Asus, and Lenovo – has computers with at least one critical flaw in them. IBTimes UK also mentioned the Lenovo updater again, but has pointed out that instead of patching up the flaws, Lenovo decided to remove it entirely. ASUS has decided to patch the vulnerability that enabled the 10-minute attack, but did not come out with any come out with any patches for over 3 months since its first notice.
It’s heavily recommended that all bloatware is to be removed completely. If you’re using a computer provided by your workplace, get the IT guy to remove them. Else if you’re a home user, reinstall Windows with a clean copy or remove the bloatware with a cleaner like Revo Uninstaller or the built-in uninstaller on Windows.
Seems pretty legit to me – I’ve always reinstall a fresh new clean copy of Windows on all new machines that I’ve come across.
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