Understanding Lenovo Superfish Adware

Over the last 2 weeks, I had to explain to my superiors and clients and friends what Superfish is.Here's a clear cut definition of Superfish:

Superfish adware installed on some Lenovo PCs install a non-unique trusted root certification authority (CA) certificate, allowing an attacker to spoof HTTPS traffic.

What the heck does that mean???

Add Extra Layer of Protection to your Windows System

I have been testing and using the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) from Microsoft for quite some time now.

It is a great way to keep yourself protected from - the unknown and yet to be discovered flaws in Windows, and Windows applications... designed to help prevent hackers from gaining access to your system.