The biggest issue with this bit of nastyware is that it intercepts all your web traffic – including encrypted traffic – to analyze it and use it to offer you targeted ads. Powerful, good graphics and sound, well built and cheaper than many competing models – probably because Lenovo offset costs by installing Visual Discovery). (For what it’s worth, I really like this laptop – malware aside. I removed it, but many won’t notice it until its too late. I have one of the impacted models – a Lenovo Y50-70 – and saw this garbage as soon as I powered it up the first time. The ads it serves are craftily injected into Google search results and other pages that you expect to be clean, making it easy for the unsuspecting to click and get more adware, viruses and scams. Visual Discovery causes pop-up ads and inserts ads in web pages that directs traffic to suspicious or even harmful 3rd party websites. The program causing the problem, Visual Discovery, was pre-installed by Lenovo on some laptop models since August 2014. The story is picking up steam today (Wired covered it here), and that’s a good thing because this little bit of adware poses some significant risks. I started seeing reports of adware/malware being installed on Lenovo laptops yesterday.
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