Lenovo manages to settle a lawsuit that "won" when it was tried for adding the software Superfish VisualDiscovery that violated the privacy of consumers but also their security on the internet.
"At the beginning of 2014, the companies Lenovo and the Superfish ξεκίνησαν μια επιχειρηματική cooperation για να εγκαταστήσουν ένα λογισμικό της Superfish που ονομάζεται VisualDiscovery σε 28 μοντέλα φορητών computers of Lenovo. 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 filed a class action lawsuit against Lenovo over its Superfish software say it degraded their computers' performance by constantly using system resources to serve advertisements.
"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 rest of the inaccessible customers, Lenovo will use multiple online advertising platforms, from Google, Twitter and Facebook to inform them.
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