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Office Depot and OfficeMax are fined millions for tricking customers into thinking their computers were infected with malware, car alarms can make your vehicle less secure, and facial recognition in apartment blocks comes under the microscope.
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Office Depot, and its partner Support.com, have been fined $35 million for using the PC Health Check tune-up service to dupe people into buying unnecessary computer repair and technical services.
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What does the average person do when their computer starts behaving oddly? If their PC is getting slower, or they’re being pestered with an excessive number of pop-ups? The average user – and you, dear reader, are not a typical user because… Continue reading Office Depot fined millions for tricking customers into believing their PCs were infected with malware
Office Depot and a tech support service have agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission a total of $35 million to settle charges they lied to customers by convincing them their products had been hacked, the FTC announced Wednesday. Office Depot and Support.com will pay $25 million and $10 million, respectively, for their role in a years-long scheme to use a software program, known as PC Health Check, as a tool to convince customers to buy tech support from Office Depot, the FTC said. A complaint alleges that both companies configured PC Health Check to report it had found malware based on whether customers agreed with statements such as “My PC recently became much slower or is too slow to use,” rather than true malware scans. Both companies knew about the problem as early as 2012 yet they continued marketing and using PC Health Check until late 2016, the FTC […]
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News investigations show office supply chain sold unneeded fixes for $180. Continue reading Office Depot caught claiming out-of-box PCs showed “symptoms of malware”
News investigations show office supply chain sold unneeded fixes for $180. Continue reading Office Depot caught claiming out-of-box PCs showed “symptoms of malware”