Bravo! Windows Defender update fully removes Lenovo’s dangerous Superfish malware

Microsoft’s stayed mum during Thursday’s uproar about Lenovo installing dangerous, invasive “Superfish” adware on new PCs —adware that hijacks all secure HTTPS connections on affected PCs. But early Friday morning, Redmond quietly issued a sly condemnation of Lenovo’s folly, updating its Windows Defender antivirus solution to eradicate both the adware itself and the rogue self-signed certificate that allows Superfish to compromise encrypted web traffic.

The update was first noticed by Cloudflare security engineer Filippo Valsorda, who also created the first website that checks to see if your computer is infected with Superfish. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that “Microsoft security software detects and removes the Superfish software from Lenovo devices.”

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