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Superfish was an advertising company that developed various advertising-supported software products based on a visual search engine. The company was based in Palo Alto, California.〔 It was founded in Israel in 2006 and has been regarded as part of the country's "Download Valley" cluster of adware companies. Superfish's software has been described as malware or adware by several sources.〔〔〔〔〔 The software was bundled with various applications as early as 2010, and Lenovo began to bundle the software with some of its computers in September 2014.〔 On February 20, 2015, the United States Department of Homeland Security advised uninstalling it and its associated root certificate, because they make computers vulnerable to serious cyberattacks, including interception of passwords and sensitive data being transmitted through browsers. == History == Superfish was founded in 2006 by Adi Pinhas and Michael Chertok.〔〔(Superfish gets $10M for image search ) – San Francisco Business Times, July 30, 2013〕 Pinhas is a graduate of Tel Aviv University.〔(Q&A: Adi Pinhas, founder and CEO of tech startup Superfish ) – San Jose Mercury News, January 2, 2015〕 In 1999, he co-founded Vigilant Technology, which “invented digital video recording for the surveillance market”, according to his LinkedIn profile. Before that, he worked at Verint, an intelligence company that analyzed telephone signals and had allegedly tapped Verizon communication lines. Chertok is a graduate of Technion and Bar-Ilan University with 10 years of experience in "large scale real-time data mining systems."〔(Executive Profile – Michael Chertok – Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Superfish, Inc ) – Bllomberg.com, retrieved February 20, 2015〕 Since its founding, Superfish has used a team of "a dozen or so PhDs" primarily to develop algorithms for the comparison and matching of images. It released its first product, WindowShopper, in 2011. WindowShopper immediately prompted a large number of complaints on internet message boards, from users who didn't know how the software had been installed on their machines.〔 Superfish initially received funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and to date has raised over $20 million, mostly from DFJ and Vintage Investment Partners. Forbes listed the company as number 64 on their list of America's most promising companies. Pinhas in 2014 stated that "Visual search is not here to replace the keyboard ... visual search is for the cases in which I have no words to describe what I see." As of 2014, Superfish products had over 80 million users. In May 2015, following the Lenovo incident and to distance itself from the fallout, the team behind Superfish changed name and moved its activities to JustVisual.com, in the hope that it can turn over a new leaf. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Superfish」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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