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Lenovo working with Microsoft and McAfee to counter Superfish

By ArunKumar@TWCN |

Lenovo is in a fix as its SuperFish was caught in the net. Superfish installs itself as a certificate in the trusted certificates section so that more of advertisements can be shown while running searches etc. Though Lenovo maintains that […]

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Lenovo debacle makes buyers turn to Microsoft Signature Edition computers

By ArunKumar@TWCN |

Following the Lenovo Superfish debacle, people are looking for places and vendors who can provide them with “clean” computers. Clean means no adware, no crapware, no bloatware but only the required operating system and required apps. Microsoft Store has been […]

Class Action Lawsuit against Lenovo for bundling Superfish under consideration

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC |

A Class Action Lawsuit against Lenovo, for bundling Superfish malware on its PCs, appears to be under consideration. Lenovo, the Chinese multinational computer Technology Company lately has been in headlines for shipping the machines preloaded with an adware Superfish. The […]

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Lenovo machines come pre-installed with Superfish Adware

By AnandKhanse@TWC |

If you have recently bought a Lenovo machine, it might contain an Adware called Superfish. Aghast security experts tweeted that some of the Lenovo machines shipped in the month of January still had the Superfish software installed. Lenovo installs Superfish Adware The […]

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Now Micromax Smartphone starts installing Adware

By AnkitGupta@TWCN |

Micromax, an Indian phone manufacturing company is highly in demand across the nation due to the features and price flexibility it provides to its Smartphone users. But recently one of the users of Micromax has reported that his Micromax A093 […]

Microsoft explains change to Browser modifiers and Adware

Microsoft explains detection change for Browser modifiers and Adware

By AbhishekShukla@TWC |

Recently Microsoft released important changes to detecting browser modifiers and adware, with a view to improving Internet Explorer security and browsing experience. Microsoft has mentioned the changes to how it detects browser modifiers and adware and they are: Unacceptable behaviors […]

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Social Bots are on the rise, and marching, says Microsoft

By AnkitGupta@TWCN |

If the growth of social networking websites is a known fact then so is the emergence of social bots. In social sites people found and adopted an innovative way to connect and communicate. But social networking did not only attracted […]