Η Lenovo managed to make a settlement in a judgment of conviction that he "won" when he was tried for the addition of the software Superfish VisualDiscovery that violated the privacy of consumers but also their security on the internet.
"In early 2014, Lenovo and Superfish started a business partnership to install Superfish software called VisualDiscovery on 28 Lenovo laptop models. "VisualDiscovery was not disclosed to consumers," he said indictment (PDF).
According to a post “SuperFish Vulnerability” posted by Lenovo on its support page companyand after discovery of pre-installed software by consumers, 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 filed a class action lawsuit against Lenovo over its Superfish software say it degraded their computers' performance by constantly usingconditions of the system 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 rest of the inaccessible customers, Lenovo will use multiple online advertising platforms, from Google, Twitter and Facebook to inform them.
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