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by sandov 2313 days ago
The difference being that Lenovo did it at the firmware level. Even if you reinstalled Windows from scratch, the malware would still be installed.
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Not exactly. It was bundled into the recovery partition, so if you used that to reinstall your machine you'd get the OEM installation which included Superfish.

However, if you reinstalled Windows manually you wouldn't have. Technically it had nothing to do with firmware.