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Lenovo hit by lawsuit over Superfish adware

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  • John_Gray
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    Even in the US, I suspect that the class action charge will get laughed out of court!

    "...computer users are forced to keep their computers running longer (due to the slowed performance) which utilizes more electricity, decreases the useful life of a computer, and causes increased Internet access charges."

    Yeah, right... Take this 5p in compensation.
  • John_Gray wrote: »
    Even in the US, I suspect that the class action charge will get laughed out of court!

    "...computer users are forced to keep their computers running longer (due to the slowed performance) which utilizes more electricity, decreases the useful life of a computer, and causes increased Internet access charges."

    Yeah, right... Take this 5p in compensation.

    Agreed. I imagine if (by some miracle) the court case is won on the above, HP and the majority of the other manufacturers will have messy pants, given the amount of bloatware they bundle with Windows these days...
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