Still dirty tactics Lenovo

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In February it was discovered that Lenovo presintalaba adware from their computers, later, in August he returned to the inkwell from the BIOS replaced Windows processes by Lenovo themselves. - Today, according to Michael Horowitz in ComputerWorld, Lenovo could have followed similar practices.

Horowitz has found a self-executable task into two computers on the ThinkPad range, that came with Windows 7 installed from scratch. The task is titled Lenovo Customer Feedback Program 64, and their description: "This task sends usage data to Lenovo customers."

Inside the folder, observes Horowitz, he found two bookstores with a name that sounds all who know the advertising industry: and Omniture Site Catalyst.

Lenovo.TVT.CustomerFeedback.InnovApps.dll

Lenovo.TVT.CustomerFeedback.OmnitureSiteCatalyst.dll.

Lenovo Superfish assured us that was not in the "Think" (ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, Lenovo Desktop, ThinkStation, ThinkServer, etc.) range and no one has found evidence to the contrary. But this is monitoring and control of online activity of users with clean copies of Windows on their computers "Think" range.

As much as Lenovo does not send information describing 'personally identifiable' their customers, the truth is that the aggregated data are insufficient today to identify a person. - More even if together with data from other sources, as surely make the clients that Lenovo sold these data.

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