Lenovo manages to settle a lawsuit that "won" when it was tried for adding the software Superfish VisualDiscovery which violated the privacy of consumers as well as their security in Internet.
“In early 2014, Lenovo and Superfish began a business partnership to install a Superfish software called VisualDiscovery on 28 models of Lenovo laptops. VisualDiscovery was not disclosed to consumers,” it says indictment (PDF).
According to a post “SuperFish Vulnerability” posted by Lenovo on the page supportcompany and after consumers discovered the pre-installed software, the VisualDiscovery software was designed to run in the background, intercepting HTTP(S) traffic and with the help of a self-signed root certificate could decrypt and monitor all traffic, encrypted or not.
Lenovo's post on SuperFish preloaded software states that the following Lenovo Notebooks are affected:
E-Series, Edge Series, Flex-Series, G-Series, Miix-Series, S-Series, U-Series, Y-Series, Yoga-Series, and Z-Series.
Consumers who have filed a lawsuit against Lenovo over Superfish software say it has downgraded the performance of their computers by constantly using system resources to serve ads.
"VisualDiscovery was installed on nearly 800.000 Lenovo laptops sold in the United States from September 1, 2014 to February 28, 2015," the agreement also states.
On January 18, 2015, in response to growing complaints about the effects of VisualDiscovery, Lenovo published guidelines foractivation of server-level malware.
The settlement agreement also states that Lenovo must make payments of $ 7.300.000.
Of the 800.000 who bought VisualDiscovery-containing laptops, 500.000 who acquired their devices from Lenovo or bought them from retailers such as Best Buy and Amazon should contact the Chinese company immediately to find out about the settlement. .
For the remaining unreachable customers, Lenovo will use multiple online advertising platforms, from Google to Twitter and Facebook with the aim of informing them.
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