Lenovo begins the compensation for Superfish

Lenovo managed to make a settlement in a judgment of conviction that it "won" when it went to trial for the 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).Lenovo

According to a post “SuperFish Vulnerability” posted by Lenovo on the page company 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 filed the class action against Lenovo, for its Superfish software, alleging that it degraded the performance of their computers by constantly using 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 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.

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 Twitter and Facebook to inform them.

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