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Security Firms Fined Over Never-Ending Subscriptions

Posted by timothy on from the crooks-v.-thieves- dept.

Barence writes "'Security firms Symantec and McAfee have both agreed to pay $375,000 to US authorities after they automatically renewed consumers' subscriptions without their consent.' The two companies were reported to the New York Attorney General after people complained that their credit cards were being charged without their consent. The investigators found that information about the auto-renewals was hidden at the bottom of long web pages or buried in the EULA."

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  1. Re:Humph... by RobertLTux · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "sadly, some government departments institutionalise this ("all PCs must have anti-virus") which led to a spate of pointless "virus scanner" programs for gnu/linux with virus-signatures from the 1980's."

    actually it does kind of make sense since you could have a Unix/Linux/Mac system be a carrier for a virus
    (also its becoming cool to provide a Live AntiVirus CD and most of them are Linux based)

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