Earlier this week it was discovered_that many Lenovo PCs released between September 2014 and January 2015 shipped with an adware application called Superfish. This application, while annoying, was almost harmless on its own, except for one big problem: it installed a root certificate authority on the computer allowing the software to_man-in-the-middle secure traffic to sites like your bank or Facebook. Why exactly the company would need to do that was perplexing,_but we finally got the answer straight from the company behind Superfish. It wanted to show you its visual search ads on any website. The Next Web spoke indirectly to…

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