Lenovo has been justifiably catching a lot of grief this week for preloading dangerous adware called Superfish onto its computers that hijacks HTTPS traffic to inject ads onto encrypted websites. While there are plenty of ways to remove this obnoxious adware yourself, Neowin reports that Microsoft may have just done the job for you.
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In its latest update to Windows Defender, Microsoft has removed Superfish’s certificate entirely, which one hopes will completely nuke the program’s ability to run on Windows. That said, sneaky adware like Superfish has multiple ways of getting to you and Neowin says that the newest Windows Defender update doesn’t mean you’re completely out of the woods just yet.
“The good news is that this will help protect those who were not aware of issue or did not know how to remove the certificate,” writes Neowin. “But, all is not perfect, as Filippo Valsorda notes on Twitter, the Firefox certificate remains in place.”
Hopefully, the good folks at Mozilla will get around to removing the certificate from Firfox soon too. In the meantime, to make sure Superfish is gone from your machine entirely, be sure to check out this handy guide by clicking here.
