"Notably, Lenovo did not preinstall the Superfish program on any of its computer models that were marketed to businesses or more sophisticated computer users."
That's a particularly damning accusation.
That's a particularly damning accusation.
It's a lot easier to add HP's drivers to a base image than it is to turn a HP base windows install into something configured the way we want.
I like that you said spyware, whether intentionally or not.
Most people call these programs "crapware," "junkware," "bloatware," or third-party pre-installed software. Though generally speaking this third-party junkware isn't expressly designed to be spyware. Nevertheless, with cases like Superfish, the line between spyware and junkware is vanishingly faint.
Everybody, included non technically literate people call this spyware. This is where names like "spybot search and destroy" come from.