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I'm pretty curious about who this "Sterling International Consulting Group" suing Lenovo is, their website ( http://www.sterling-consulting.com/ ) 404s...
Link works fine for me. "Your source of Microsoft expertise and specialists in Sharepoint"
.. reinstall any computer you get from scratch; Firmware Bios spying is of course much harder to get rid from.
A year or eighteen months from now look for a settlement in the case. Each of the affected class members will be entitled to a $5 discount on an anti-virus product plus up to $25 if they can provide detailed documentation showing actual economic losses. Any money left over after the coupons and payments are made will be given to a charity hand picked by the plaintiff's attorney. There will also be injunctive relief i…
Still, it's better for this to be in the open, with all the bad PR associated to it, so that companies will think about it twice before pulling similar stunts in the future.
"Notably, Lenovo did not preinstall the Superfish program on any of its computer models that were marketed to businesses or more sophisticated computer users." That's a particularly damning accusation.
I'm wondering how'd they figure out if a user (not business) is a 'more sophisticated' computer user.
A year or eighteen months from now look for a settlement in the case. Each of the affected class members will be entitled to a $5 discount on an anti-virus product plus up to $25 if they can provide detailed documentation showing actual economic losses. Any money left over after the coupons and payments are made will be given to a charity hand picked by the plaintiff's attorney. There will also be injunctive relief i…
And through all of this, the Lenovo name will continue to be tarnished. That's where the real damage is.
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I wish we had this option for mobile (android) phones which are preloaded with crapware (oftentimes permanently) even more than PCs are.
That was one of the selling points to me for the Nexus line; not perfect, but Google's vision of Android without any of the manufacturer's extras
What's worse though is that they apparently don't have any QA whatsoever since they pushed an update that made the device basically unusable (keywords: Nexus 7 2012 Android 5).
"Notably, Lenovo did not preinstall the Superfish program on any of its computer models that were marketed to businesses or more sophisticated computer users." That's a particularly damning accusation.
I'm wondering how'd they figure out if a user (not business) is a 'more sophisticated' computer user.
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and then have it freeze and restart every day -__- (I guess is just my particular experience and might not apply to everyone)
To be fair. I didn't do this I'm running what came on it and mine freezes and restarts several times a day anyway...
.. reinstall any computer you get from scratch; Firmware Bios spying is of course much harder to get rid from.
Upvoted since reinstalling is a valuable skill to learn and cultivate.
Me? I believe it's great that I live in a free country where I can buy a new motorcycle and not have to take it apart to make it safe to use, or consider engine-building skill to be essential.
And as much as I enjoy working with software, I don't think reinstalling windows just to avoid spyware should be considered essential, or that regular people should have to know how to do it. For your regular Mr or Mrs Smith reinstalling is not a valuable skill - computers are tools which should just work.