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MacKeeper May Have To Pay Millions In Class-Action Suit

Posted by samzenpus on from the pay-the-piper dept.

jfruh writes: If you use a Mac, you probably recognize MacKeeper from the omnipresent popup ads designed to look vaguely like system warnings urging you to download the product and use it to keep your computer safe. Now the Ukranian company behind the software and the ads may have to pay millions in a class action suit that accuses them of exaggerating security problems in order to convince customers to download the software.

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  1. it can't be true! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    macs and mac users are prone to the same shady marketing gimmicks and software as windows users? no way. say it isn't so.

    next thing you're gonna say they get viruses too? wtf is this world coming to?

  2. That's it? by mbone · · Score: 5, Funny

    They might get fined? That's it?

    Can't they be sent to the Eastern Front to fight the Russians?