Well, it seems as though this [superfish] is categorized as a virus on most websites. From their own description:
"Superfish Window Shopper is a free browser add-on that instantly compares prices and shows similar items on ANY product in hundreds of U.S. online stores including Amazon.com, Best Buy, Macys, Nordstorm, Overstock.com, Staples, Target, and Wal-mart."
So if I have this right, this is essentially a massive affiliate scheme to produce revenue for the company? If it compares prices on all these sites, affid='s are injected for Lenovo and a % of the sale is given to them?
Edit: doing the math here on this for the last few hours and even if just a few million units have been sold, this has to be 10's of millions in dollars (being very generous) over the past few quarters.
There reviews are horrible as well. All spam / annoyance related.
"Superfish Window Shopper is a free browser add-on that instantly compares prices and shows similar items on ANY product in hundreds of U.S. online stores including Amazon.com, Best Buy, Macys, Nordstorm, Overstock.com, Staples, Target, and Wal-mart."
So if I have this right, this is essentially a massive affiliate scheme to produce revenue for the company? If it compares prices on all these sites, affid='s are injected for Lenovo and a % of the sale is given to them?
Edit: doing the math here on this for the last few hours and even if just a few million units have been sold, this has to be 10's of millions in dollars (being very generous) over the past few quarters.
There reviews are horrible as well. All spam / annoyance related.