After reading the reviews here I ran ADW cleaner before connecting to my network and cleaned off the crap. ADW found the same malware/PUP as others have mentioned and cleaned them off nicely.I find no other flaws and it certainly seems like a decent machine. I would not hesitate to buy another when I need one. I did create a new administrator and deleted the original it came with just in case.It does seem odd that even after so many report of the malware that its still being installed. It may be that the distributor is using a flawed bootleg image or something?They also sent me the license key un-asked so I suppose worse case you could wipe and reinstall fresh.