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You sure they weren't referring to Lenovo Service Engine or Lenovo Accelerator? Sure, they may not have installed these things on all of their laptops, but they've been caught quite a few times recently and it seems like a bad trend. The UEFI stuff that installs on a vanilla Windows install is super sketchy.

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How likely is it that someone would describe Lenovo Service Engine or Lenovo Accelerator as Chinese spyware?

How would you describe it? Lenovo is a Chinese multinational company and Lenovo Service Engine phoned home with personal information. How do you describe spyware?

I get that companies may not have bad motives. It's difficult to survey users real-life use cases. But companies have abused users with pre-installed software that's slow, poorly written, creates new vectors for exploit, shares "anonymous" information that often isn't a) secured properly or b) still personally identifiable.

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