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Pete Horne
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9 years ago this month I discovered the Lenovo superfish virus and worked with Nicole Perlroth at the New York Times to get the story out. AMA.
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adrienne
@adrienne
What were you doing at the time that led to you discovering it?
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Pete Horne
@horneps
I was watching TV sitting with the fam quietly setting up a new Lenovo notepad for mobile dev and I ran a build that failed with an auto regression test that had never failed before.
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adrienne
@adrienne
Wow and how long elapsed between that initial error and the discovery? Was it hours, days, weeks?
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Pete Horne
@horneps
It was funny (to me). I worked out how to detect it and I was going OS. So I got photos of it on PCs in stores in Sydney, Perth, NYC and Boston. Reached out through my network and got a referral to NYC, and I was on the Acela to Boston and we did it over the phone for the next day.
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