I always think of the junk that comes on so many Windows PCs as a mix of random free trial programs and unwanted applications. I never expected a major vendor to install Man-In-The-Middle exploits onto a brand new PC.
It reaffirms my actions, whenever I buy a new PC, I always immediately install Windows from Microsoft media, blowing away the factory system and the recovery partitions. It is unfortunate that actions like this are necessary.