[chris_wot]

I think what would be interesting is to ask Lenovo why they commissioned Lenovo Browser Guard from a known spyware distributor, Conduit (one of the biggest and for a time nastiest Malware programs was Search Protect, which they make).

Proof: here’s a press release from Perion from June 2014 which announced that they partnered with Lenovo to create Browser Guard:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140618005930/en/Peri...

And here is a January 2014 press release that shows that Perion acquired Conduit's ClientConnect Services in 2014

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140102005313/en/Peri...