联想官方将发布一款自动卸载Superfish应用的程序。Superfish出现于2014年9月和2015年1月之间销售的联想笔记本电脑。联想已经联合微软和McAfee等专业机构对Superfish进行专杀操作,并且对此事深表歉意,并继续采取措施修复软件和证书中存在的问题,尽快让公众的信心得以恢复。
run the Automatic Removal tool executable to ensure complete removal of Superfish and Certificates for all major browsers.
Step 1: On Windows 8.1, Open Search
Step 2: Search for “Certificate”. Select “Manage computer certificates”.
Step 3: When prompted by Windows, “Do you want to allow this program to make changes to this computer?”, select ‘Yes’
Step 4: The certificate manager window should appear. On the left hand panel, select “Trusted Root Certificate Authorities” followed by the sub-folder “Certificates”. On the right panel, find the item with the name “Superfish, Inc.”.
Note: If you do not find an item with the name “SuperFish Inc.”, the certificate is not in the Windows store. You may still need to remove it from Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird if you have them installed. Proceed to B) If you have Firefox browser or Thunderbird Email Client installed you must also perform the following for each individually".
Step 5. Right click on the item labeled “Superfish, Inc.” and select ‘Delete’. On touch systems, you may select the red ‘X’ in top toolbar.
Step 6. When prompted by Windows to confirm the deletion, select ‘Yes’. The certificate should now be removed.
Step 7. Restart your device.
If you have Firefox browser or Thunderbird Email Client installed you must also perform the following for each individually:
Step 1. Open Firefox browser and press either the orange Firefox button
or the Settings button
Step 2. Select Options from the menu
Step 3. Select Advanced from the Options window
Step 4. Next, select the Certificates tab, then press the View Certificates button
Step 5. On the Certificate Manager window, select the Authorities tab, then scroll through the list to find and select the SuperFish, Inc. certificate. Then press the Delete or Distrust … button.
Step 6. In the Delete or Distrust CA Certificates window, select the Superfish, Inc. entry. Then click on OK on all open windows to accept the changes.
Step 7. Restart your device.
Reminder: If you have Thunderbird and Firefox you may have to repeat these steps for each application.