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What is Superfish?</h2>
Superfish is a piece of software that <a href="http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929">Lenovo has admitted to pre-installing</a> on many of its laptops to "enhance the shopping experience" of its users. However, the <a href="https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA15-051A">U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team</a> calls Superfish a "man-in-the-middle attack" because of how it "intercepts users' web traffic to provide targeted advertisements."</div>
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Why is Superfish so dangerous?</h2>
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Superfish snoops in on your web browsing and secretly slips ads into webpages. But the really dangerous part is that it's pre-installed with root certificate authority, which allows it to impersonate any server's security certificate.<br /><br />If this certificate is compromised by hackers, you could be tricked into logging in to a fake website and giving hackers your password. Because of Superfish, any of your accounts including encrypted bank accounts could be easily compromised.<br />
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Which computers are affected?</h2>
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<span class="h2-subheading">According to Lenovo, Superfish may have been pre-installed<br /> on the following models:</span><br />
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    <td><strong>E Series: </strong></td>
    <td>E10-30</td>
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    <td><strong>G Series:</strong></td>
    <td>G410, G510, G710, G40-70, G50-70, G40-30, G50-30, G40-45, G50-45, G40-80</td>
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    <td><strong>S Series:</strong></td>
    <td>S310, S410, S40-70, S415, S415Touch, S435, S20-30, S20-30Touch</td>
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    <td><strong>U Series:</strong></td>
    <td>U330P, U430P, U330Touch, U430Touch, U530Touch</td>
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    <td><strong>Y Series:</strong></td>
    <td>Y430P, Y40-70, Y50-70, Y40-80, Y70-70</td>
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    <td><strong>Z Series:</strong></td>
    <td>Z40-75, Z50-75, Z40-70, Z50-70, Z70-80</td>
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    <td><strong>Edge Series:</strong></td>
    <td>Edge 15</td>
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    <td><strong>Flex Series:</strong></td>
    <td>Flex2 14D, Flex2 15D, Flex2 14, Flex2 15, Flex2 Pro, Flex 10</td>
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    <td><strong>MIIX Series:</strong></td>
    <td>MIIX2-8, MIIX2-10, MIIX2-11, MIIX 3 1030</td>
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    <td><strong>YOGA Series:</strong></td>
    <td>YOGA2Pro-13, YOGA2-13, YOGA2-11, YOGA3 Pro</td>
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    <td align="right" colspan="2"><a href="http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929" target="_blank">Source: Lenovo</a></td>
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Will restoring from a backup help?</h2>
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Superfish has been pre-installed by Lenovo. Therefore, restoring your computer to factory condition from either a backup partition or a backup DVD will not solve the problem if Superfish is also part of your backup. Superfish would only be reinstalled, too.</div>
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So if you ever use a backup to restore your system, you may need to again remove Superfish and its root security certificate from your system.</div>
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Remove Superfish now </h2>
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To remove the Superfish program and its certificate from your computer,</div>
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please use this free tool from Lenovo:</div>
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<a href="http://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/thinkvantage_en/metroapps/SuperFishRemovalTool/1.0.2.0/Lenovo.SuperFishRemovalTool.exe" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee;">DOWNLOAD Superfish Removal Tool </span></a> <br />
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This tool will also remove any Superfish certificates<br />
from Mozilla Firefox® and Thunderbird®.</div>
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