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Safe Harbor Spells Win For Kaspersky In Malware Case Against Zango
suraj.sun writes to tell us that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of security company Kaspersky in the recent case questioning their classification of Zango software as malware. "The court ruled that Kaspersky Lab, which classified online media company Zango's software as malware and 'protected' users from it accordingly, could not be held liable for any actions it took to manufacture and distribute the technical means to restrict Zango software's access to others, as Kaspersky Lab deemed it 'objectionable material.' Zango sued Kaspersky Lab to force the Company to reclassify Zango's programs as nonthreatening and to prevent Kaspersky Lab's security software from blocking Zango's potentially undesirable programs. In the precedent-setting ruling for the anti-malware industry, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling that Kaspersky Lab is a provider of an 'interactive computer service' as defined in the Communications Decency Act of 1996 . Part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 states: 'No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of ... any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to [objectionable] material.'"
What? They're just cute, harmless lil trojans...
The only cute harmless trojans that I know of can be found in 20-packs at my local supermarket.
I say we blast off and nuke the site from space...it's the only way to be sure.
WTF? Over?
sulk in the corner...? No, beat them badly, kill them, and then crush them into a fine powder like the Box Network executives in Futurama.
I think even more alarming is the fact that Zango didn't get laughed out of the courtroom
You mean like SCO?
Thank you, thank you....let the Karma flow ;)
WTF? Over?
Only half my problem was the uninstall of these items.
The other half was the users (bless their hearts) who would reinstall them. It took threatening to fire the next person who installed HotBar before they stopped.
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
I find Kernel32.dll objectionable since it kept causing my user's machines to Blue-Screen.
I keep deleting it from their partitions, but then they just complain their machine stopped working and needs to be re-imaged.
Bunch of crybabies if you ask me.
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