Lenovo promises to cut the crapware in the wake of Superfish debacle

Lenovo announced today that it will stop shipping PCs with adware and bloatware and that it now aims to be the "leader in providing cleaner, safer PCs."

This response comes in the wake of a massive backlash after the company was found to be including bundled advertising software that completely broke the security provided by HTTPS.

Lenovo's plan comes in two parts. First, the company will scale back preinstalled software. Its systems will include the operating system and any necessary drivers and software to make the hardware work (to, for example, support fingerprint readers or 3D cameras). It will also include some Lenovo applications (such as the ThinkVantage System Update software, which is a genuinely useful app for updating drivers and system firmware) and security software.

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