Lenovo CTO: Hey, look around - we're not the only ones with a crapware infection
On Friday Lenovo is going to tell the world about how it plans to regain the trust of its users in the wake of the Superfish clusterfuck – and may even launch an independent security audit of its products.
"Our goal, in the end, is to make this right," Lenovo's CTO Peter Hortensius told The Register on Tuesday. "It's going to take a long road to earn trust back."
Lenovo was caught bundling adware Superfish with its cheapo laptops to make a fast buck by injecting adverts into websites, a move that left users vulnerable to online password theft. Hortensius claims this is an industry-wide problem, and analysts have found other companies slipping software similar to Superfish into people's PCs.
