We take a quick break from telling you about all the shiny new things you can't have yet to inform you about problems with things you do have.  Bloatware is awful but continues to be popular for sellers of prebuilt systems, both mobile and desktop.  It is not just the pop ups telling you to buy the full version of whatever was installed on your system before you bought it, nor the CPU cycles these programs take up; the issue is security.  Lenovo and the Superfish issue were in the news recently and now it seems that vulnerabilities have been found in systems sold by Acer, ASUS and Dell as well.  10 devices were tested by Duo Security, all of which had vulnerabilities.  Dell and Lenovo had a single problem each, ones which we are already familiar with sadly while Acer and HP both have a pair.  You can read about what the vulnerabilities are over at The Inquirer, something to do while you reimage your new machine.

"Duo Security identified 12 vulnerabilities across the vendors' machines. We have approached all of them to see whether they are happy to talk about the problems, which Duo described as significant."

Here is some more Tech News from around the web:

Tech Talk