Settlement Reached in McAfee Class Action Suit

An anonymous reader writes "Network Associates has reached a settlement in a class action suit alleging it broke its own license agreements by not providing users of VirusScan 3 & 4 with free lifetime upgrades. Although not admitting guilt, the settlement entitles all U.S. (sorry to the rest of the globe) owners of the older versions free upgrades to VirusScan v8 (or, optionally, QuickClean/AntiSpyware). If eligible, you have until July 16th to fill out this form. The settlement page also contains links to the Class Notice and Settlement Agreement (in PDF format)."

Comments

Free Software?

[Anonymous Coward]

The page to put in your information http://software.mcafee.com/lcas/ doesn't seem to require any ID# or something for the software. Does this mean free AV software for everyone?

Re:Free Software?

[ln -sf head ass]

Yup, for the first year. Hard to tell how much of a "punishment" this is for McAfee.

Re:Congradulations

[Green Light]

From the fill-out form:

A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit over McAfee VirusScan versions 3 and 4. If you are a U.S. resident and you bought a retail version of McAfee VirusScan version 3 or version 4, then you are a member of the class. As a member of the class, you may receive a free download version of your choice of one of the three McAfee perpetual products: (1) VirusScan version 8, (2) AntiSpyware version 1.0, or (3) QuickClean version 4.01 (collectively "Software").

They call the free downloads "perpetual" products - surely this implies that you will get updates?

:Free Software? And worth less than that.

[frovingslosh]

Hard to tell how much of a "punishment" this is for McAfee.

Or how much punishment it is for the user. I have a qualifying product right here at my side (version 4), but there is no way I'll ever install another McAfee product on my systems again. Here's yet another case of the class action lawyers getting rich, while the members of the class get less than nothing.