{"id":222,"date":"2015-03-01T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T13:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2015-03-01T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T13:34:33","slug":"superfish-spyware-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/2015\/03\/01\/superfish-spyware-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Superfish Spyware Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Superfish-Spyware.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-223\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Superfish-Spyware.jpg\" alt=\"Superfish Spyware\" width=\"450\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a>There\u2019s been a lot of press lately about how Lenovo shipped some of their computers with a spyware, adware program called Superfish.\u00a0 Sometimes it shows up in add\/remove programs and you can uninstall it. I got a Lenovo this morning at my shop that contains Superfish, but in this particular PC it didn\u2019t show in add\/remove programs.\u00a0 I found it when I scanned the PC with Hitman Pro.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t want to use Hitman Pro to remove it, Lenovo has an automatic removal tool that you can find at:\u00a0<a title=\"Lenovo Removal Tool\" href=\"http:\/\/support.lenovo.com\/us\/en\/product_security\/superfish_uninstall#app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lenovo Removal Tool<\/a>.\u00a0Lenovo also gives instructions, on their website, on how to manually remove Superfish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s been a lot of press lately about how Lenovo shipped some of their computers with a spyware, adware program called Superfish.\u00a0 Sometimes it shows up in add\/remove programs and you can uninstall it. I got a Lenovo this morning at my shop that contains Superfish, but in this particular PC it didn\u2019t show in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}