Lenovo on Tuesday settled charges that it compromised the security of its computers to fling ads onto desktops from August 2014 through early 2015.
The settlement with America's trade watchdog the FTC, plus 32 State Attorneys General, acknowledges no wrongdoing and imposes no financial penalty - other than a paltry $3.5m to those roughly three dozen states.
Instead, it forbids Lenovo from lying about the nature of software that injects ads or harvests data, if present on its computers, and obliges the company to get consent from customers before installing such software.
Furthermore, for the next 20 years, it requires the company to maintain a third-party audited risk assessment program for software on its computers.
Lenovo computers that may have been affected by SuperFish adware:
E Series: E10-30
Edge Series: Lenovo Edge 15
Flex Series: Flex2 14, Flex2 15, Flex2 14D, Flex2 15D, Flex2 Pro, Flex 10
G Series: G410, G510, G710, G40-30, G40-45, G40-70, G40-80, G50-30, G50-50, G50-45, G50-70, G50-80, G50-80Touch
Miix Series: Miix2 – 8, Miix2 – 10, Miix2 – 11, Miix 3 - 1030
S Series : S310, S410, S415, S415 Touch, S435, S20-30, S20-30 Touch, S40-70
U Series: U330P, U430P, U330 Touch, U430 Touch, U530 Touch
Y Series: Y430P, Y40-70, Y40-80, Y50-70, Y70-70
Yoga Series: Yoga2-11, Yoga2-13, Yoga2Pro-13, Yoga3 Pro
Z Series: Z40-70, Z40-75, Z50-70, Z50-75, Z70-80
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