Tanath on Lenovo users report preinstalled "Superfish" adware "actually installs its own self-signed certificate authority which effectively allows the software to snoop on secure connections, like banking websites ... This is a malicious technique commonly known as a man-in-the middle attack" - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"This is not new behaviour for Lenovo either: http://www.cbc.ca/news..." - Tanath