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Another personal hit against Lenovo has shown up. I recently needed to replace the WLAN card in one of my laptops. I grabbed an older Intel-2230 off the shelf and put it in.

I did it while the PC was hibernating (I know… testing in production and all that.) The OS recognized it immediately upon coming back up.

Later on however when I went to restart the thing, I received a cold warning from Lenovo. The apparently well-known 1802 Error.

In short the 1802 error means only a very specific set of add-ons such as WLAN, WWAN, and HDDs are whitelisted. You are not allowed to use something that Lenovo doesn’t want you to.

If I wanted to be restricted and cave and operate only according to a manufacturer’s demands, I would use Apple.

Between this, the Superfish incident, and the pre-installed malware that came on TWO Lenovo Yogas, I am again ruling out Lenovo from ever being part of my deployments again.

Last week I wrote about Lenovo installing malware called Security HD on Yoga 2 tablets (and presumably other Androids.) I used an extractor and uploaded the .APK for Security HD to VirusTotal. Brief summary: It’s likely a problem… but still not particularly identifiable. That’s my negative vote.

I have returned this second tablet. I have mixed feelings about not spending mroe time researching what VirusTotal scan of Security HD is really doing in the background. This entire exercise has cost me enough time already, I wanted my money back more.

Here is the link to the complete report from VirusTotal:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8f06876aae7b7fe9b3258332aac0578c69c6eec05af1cc73c5d04dfbfc881776/analysis/1425753344/

Tag: malware

Just can’t stand Lenovo any longer

com.Lenovo.SafeCenter.hd – VirusTotal report