[shaneg]

They actually reference the root certificate in their removal instructions:

"Uninstalling Superfish Visual Discovery

    Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a Program

    Select Visual Discovery > Uninstall

Superfish will be removed from Program Files and Program Data directories, files in user directory will stay intact for the privacy reason. Registry entry and root certificate will remain as well. The Superfish service will stop working as soon as it is uninstalled via above process, and following reboot."

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-P-Y-and-Z-series/Removal-...

[TeMPOraL]

So they're basically telling you how to get rid of ads and call it solved, while still leaving you vulnerable to getting robbed by any script kiddie that gets his hands on the certificate key?

[HackinOut]

"This article will be updated with additional instructions on clean up of deactivated files and removal of certificate shortly."

This was just edited, here is the post before that: https://web.archive.org/web/20150219151726/http://forums.len...