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Lenovo already hit by lawsuit over Superfish adware

article published on 23 February, 2015

Lenovo pre-loaded the adware Superfish on some of its recent consumer PCs, and it will now have to pay the price. Angry consumers have proposed a class-action suit against both Lenovo and Superfish, claiming fraudulent business practices and the disregard of privacy. Superfish plugs itself into your software, adding product recommendations into search results. However, the software ... [ read the full article ]

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hearme0
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23. February 2015 @ 23:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
There is no forgiveness for this. It was deliberate with malicious and nefarious intent. Having this mentality once means having it ALWAYS therefore, buy buy Lenovo. As a network engineer, I gave them total props up until today. No more.

NO FORGIVENESS!
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SomeBozo
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25. February 2015 @ 12:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by hearme0:
There is no forgiveness for this. It was deliberate with malicious and nefarious intent. Having this mentality once means having it ALWAYS therefore, buy buy Lenovo. As a network engineer, I gave them total props up until today. No more.

NO FORGIVENESS!
Can't agree more, it would be great if the legal system puts some serious hurt on the company to help as an incentive to warn other companies not to do this sh1t!...

alotanor
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26. February 2015 @ 10:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Makes you wonder how many times they DIDN'T get caught.
leemoo
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27. February 2015 @ 09:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Consumers will get a payout but it won't amount to much
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Tarsellis
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2. March 2015 @ 09:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by hearme0:
There is no forgiveness for this. It was deliberate with malicious and nefarious intent. Having this mentality once means having it ALWAYS therefore, buy buy Lenovo. As a network engineer, I gave them total props up until today. No more.

NO FORGIVENESS!
HEAR HEAR!

Lenovo has just joined $ony in a permanent boycott form me, and I'll permanently advise everybody against them.
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