Lenovo PC owners who bought one that had the Superfish adware installed will be able to sign up to get six free months of the McAfee LiveSafe anti-virus program service by March 16. Lenovo first announced this freebie last week as part of its attempt to appease its customers who purchase a laptop from the company that had Superfish pre-installed.
The company stated:
Today Lenovo is providing updated information about the free 6 month subscription (or free 6 month extension for existing subscribers) for McAfee antivirus service for Lenovo customers who purchased a Lenovo PC pre-loaded with Superfish software. We are working with Intel Security to provide this free service through an online system that will go live by March 16, when appropriate systems will be in place to process incoming requests.
The six free months is in addition to the 30 day free trial that's already set up for new McAfee LiveSafe users. Lenovo previously announced that Superfish, which was pre-installed on some of its notebooks between October and December of 2014, won't be installed on future PCs due to security concerns. It has already provided those owners an application that's designed to completely uninstall Superfish. It has pledged to release PCs with much less bloatware and adware in the future.
Source: Lenovo
We may earn a commission for purchases using our links. Learn more.
We're going to see tons of game delays this year and that's OK
We'll be seeing a lot of games delayed throughout 2021, more than were delayed in 2020. Right now, you should only depend on playing things that were originally supposed to release last year. Here's why that's OK.
AMD's Radeon RX 6000 GPUs have arrived. Here's where to find them.
AMD's Radeon RX 6000 GPUs aren't easy to find, and you might be wondering which models are available where. Check out the retailers and models you can expect to buy when stock normalizes.
These are the biggest PC announcements from CES 2021
CES 2021 was different in that it wasn't held at a physical location. Instead, companies relied on press kits and virtual presentations to showcase all the new products. We've rounded up the best PC-related announcements in case you happened to miss the show.
We pit the HP ENVY x360 15 against the Lenovo Yoga C740 15
Both the Lenovo Yoga C740 and the HP ENVY x360 15 are great convertible devices, but which one should you actually buy? Here are our thoughts.