What is SuperFish Inc visual discovery?

Superfish was an advertising company that developed various advertising-supported software products based on a visual search engine. The company was based in Palo Alto, California. Superfish’s software has been described as malware or adware by many sources.

How do I disable visual discovery?

You can also navigate into Windows Task Manager and select Visual Discovery under the Services tab. Once selected, you right-click on the Visual Discovery service and select ‘Stop,’ as detailed in this video.

How do I get rid of SuperFish on my Lenovo laptop?

Step I: Uninstall the Superfish software

1. Open the Windows Start menu or Start screen and search for Uninstall a program. Launch it.
2. Right-click Superfish Inc VisualDiscovery and select Uninstall. When prompted, enter your administrator password.

What is SuperFish malware?

Superfish is an advertising company whose software is widely considered to be malware. For Superfish to insert advertisements into a user’s encrypted web traffic, Superfish installs a self-signed root certificate on the user’s machine.

How can I get rid of Superfish Visual Discovery?

At this point, Superfish Visual Discovery should be gone, but it’s still a good idea to run a scan for traces of the junkware (note that most antivirus programs don’t check for malicious certificates – that’s why we manually removed them). Use your antivirus program first.

Is there a Thinkpad with VisualDiscovery Superfish?

To be clear: Lenovo never installed this software on any ThinkPad notebooks, nor any desktops, tablets, smartphones or servers; and it is no longer being installed on any Lenovo device. In addition, we are going to spend the next few weeks digging in on this issue, learning what we can do better.

How can I remove Superfish from my computer?

First, open the Windows Control Panel, click ‘Uninstall Programs’ and find ‘Superfish, Inc. Visual Discovery’, and click Uninstall. Next, you need to remove the Superfish encryption certificate from your PC. To do this, use Windows Search to look for ‘mmc.exe’.

Why did we install Superfish on our notebooks?

In our effort to enhance our user experience, we pre-installed a piece of third-party software, Superfish (based in Palo Alto, CA), on some of our consumer notebooks. The goal was to improve the shopping experience using their visual discovery techniques. In reality, we had customer complaints about the software.