Lenovo hit with lawsuit over Superfish snafu
While this makes for good copy I find it difficult to believe anyone could prove actual harm from the installation. I am not a lawyer so I certainly may have missed a big chunk of commercial law but the only thing I could find was would be around incidental damages which no doubt are expressly disclaimed and agreed to by buyers of the gear (software always disclaims all warranties). So these plaintiffs would seem to have two very large hurdles, one to prove some actual damage, and two to prove some sort of liability even if there was damage.<p>When I first heard about Komodia it seemed pretty clear to me that anyone who employed their software was just asking for trouble. That advice about "Imagine this was on the front page of the NY Times" was pretty helpful.