Lenovo slapped with a lawsuit over Superfish mess

[Himanshu Arora]

In the wake of Lenovo's admission that it messed up by preloading Superfish on its computers, the company has been taken to court by a user in the US. Jessica Bennett, a blogger by profession, has filed a class-action suit against the Chinese PC manufacturer as well as Superfish, charging both companies with fraudulent business practices and making Lenovo PCs vulnerable to malware and malicious attacks.

Bennett claimed that she had purchased a Yoga 2 laptop for business purposes, only to notice spam ads involving scantily clad women appearing on her client’s website. This was followed by similar ads on other websites, which led her to assume that her system was either infected with spyware or had been hacked.

After researching a bit on Internet forums she noticed similar behavior on other Lenovo laptops, which then led her to the Superfish malware that hijacks your web browser to inject its own selection of ads into webpages, including Google searches.

In her complaint, which was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of California, Bennett said her laptop was damaged as a result of Superfish, which was referred to as a spyware in court documents, and also accused the companies of breaching her privacy and making financial gains by tracking her Internet browsing habits.

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[fredderf81]

....a blogger is a profession now? one can really make a living doing that? ... really?

 

[Kibaruk]

....a blogger is a profession now? one can really make a living doing that? ... really?

I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic or what... but what do you think Techspot is???

If you reply a "website" well it is, but it is actually a blog about tech news structured in a forum.

 

[umbala]

....a blogger is a profession now? one can really make a living doing that? ... really?

Sure, if you want to call it a living. There are people making "a living" selling oranges on the highway. The only way these bloggers can make money is to make a name for themselves, either by harassing/criticizing celebrities or by taking advantage of something happening in the media (in this case, being the one making a big stink about Lenovo hoping people will remember your name).

 

[Guest]

Wow... Well deserved. So is Nvidia over the 970

 

[Kibaruk]

Sure, if you want to call it a living. There are people making "a living" selling oranges on the highway. The only way these bloggers can make money is to make a name for themselves, either by harassing/criticizing celebrities or by taking advantage of something happening in the media (in this case, being the one making a big stink about Lenovo hoping people will remember your name).

Or by doing like Techspot! Or any other big company that's news based, in the end it's actually a blog.

 

[MannerMauler]

Wow... Well deserved. So is Nvidia over the 970

What does this post have to do with Nvidia?

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

Wow... Well deserved. So is Nvidia over the 970

What does this post have to do with Nvidia?

My thoughts exactly. But hey, maybe Guest thinks the secretive 512MB on 970 cards is reserved for spyware, not that many business laptops will ever sport GTX970 hardware.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Nah, chances are he is happy the news articles are moving focus away from the card he currently owns.

 

[GeforcerFX]

I guess a company can't make mistakes anymore without a lawsuit coming in right away.

 

[Kibaruk]

I guess a company can't make mistakes anymore without a lawsuit coming in right away.

Specially those mistakes that means they make money off of you by spying on you. It's not something that you can say "well it's a small detail" kind of thing. a) they are spying on you b) they are proffiting from it c) they made it public d) they compromise your whole computer integrity.

 

[b1Ack13]

Why does it always have to be scantily clad women!? Why can't said women represent a completely healthy, fine tuned machine? Curse those women for wreaking such havoc on the interwebs!!!

 

[Pinkie Pie]

I was wondering when the money grabs would start, surprised it took this long. "Damaged" her computer...please.

 

[dividebyzero]

Nah, chances are he is happy the news articles are moving focus away from the card he currently owns.

It would seem to be counter-productive to bring it up in first place if that was the case. More likely a troll trying to derail the thread and turn it into a flamefest.

I guess a company can't make mistakes anymore without a lawsuit coming in right away.

I doubt there is a tech company that isn't being sued by someone. Can't think of any offhand.

 

[GeforcerFX]

Specially those mistakes that means they make money off of you by spying on you. It's not something that you can say "well it's a small detail" kind of thing. a) they are spying on you b) they are proffiting from it c) they made it public d) they compromise your whole computer integrity.

So then what about the other companies that do the same thing to there customers? If your gonna go after one might as well go after them all.

 

[Kibaruk]

So then what about the other companies that do the same thing to there customers? If your gonna go after one might as well go after them all.

Sure, as long as any of them publicly recognizes it and you actually find out how they do it, super!

 

[tipstir]

I don't own anything from this company, so I am good! Thanks for the report though!

 

[captaincranky]

....a blogger is a profession now? one can really make a living doing that? ... really?

"BLOG", is a neologism anyway. It's a contraction of, "web log".

If that weren't the case, "The New York Times", would qualify as a "blog". If IIRC, The Times now has a subscription based "blog". That said, it also has genuine news worthy articles across a wide range of relevant topics, as oppose to some **** bred with a dog tick, dissing everything in connection with its personal issues.

In some cases the porn hijacker might be preferable to the blog it replaces, as those usually provide me with a good chuckle. "Your PC is now locked you are guilty of blah, blah, blah. And then I have to remind it that myself, Firefox, along with my security software really, aren't interested with listening to its s***, and 'click goes the little red X'.. (The one in the upper right corner of the screen, to prevent confusion)..

 

[captaincranky]

It would seem to be counter-productive to bring it up in first place if that was the case. More likely a troll trying to derail the thread and turn it into a flamefest....[ ]... ...

Hey, wait a minute here, that's my job!

I'm not going out and buy a 970 just to complain about though. What I'm doing is called, "trolling with an eye toward frugality".

You go girlfriend! Go ahead and sue Lenovo for all the heavily amortized assets it's worth. (And....., we're back on topic).