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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."

2 of 194 comments (clear)

  1. Humph... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anybody who is Anti-Symantec is objectively Pro-Virus.

  2. Re:If you buy from abusers, expect to be abused. by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't deal with either, not because of this, but because they're products suck. I use F-Prot nowadays, cheap and simple, with a dead-dog simple LAN client. I wouldn't install Symantec's garbage on my worst enemy's computer, because I'm a bastard, but not a cruel bastard.

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