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 started a business cooperation to install a Superfish software called VisualDiscovery on 28 Lenovo laptop models. VisualDiscovery was not disclosed to consumers,” it says indictment (PDF).
According to a post “SuperFish Vulnerability” posted by Lenovo on the company's support page and after the 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 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 impact of VisualDiscovery, Lenovo released instructions for disabling malware at the server level.
The settlement agreement also states that Lenovo must make payments of $ 7.300.000.
Από τους 800.000 που αγόρασαν φορητούς υπολογιστές που περιείχαν το VisualDiscovery, οι 500.000 που απέκτησαν τις συσκευές τους από τη Lenovο ή τις αγόρασαν από stores retailers such as Best Buy and Amazon should contact the Chinese company directly to inquire 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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