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In response to "man whatever Superfish is my virus protection is blocking it like crazy -- nm" by Remlik

It's a bundled adware piece of shit that injects a malformed security certificate onto your system that makes it possible for anyone to ...

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Apr 6 '15, 13:20

... hijack your HTTPS traffic.

So your banking information is basically being sent in plain text.

(However, Lenovo's version might have been more egregiously broken than others)

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well I keep scanning and nothing comes up. While you're here any idea why I'm getting blank screens when I go to websites? - Remlik Apr 6, 13:24 1
- Not offhand, no. Try opening the developer tools "console" to see if any javascript errors are showing up. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 6, 13:32

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