Kaspersky Wins Important Ruling for the Anti-Malware Industry

ABC writes "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 important ruling for the anti-malware industry, Judge Coughenour of the Western District of Washington threw out Zango's lawsuit on the grounds that Kaspersky was immune from liability under the Communications Decency Act."

Re:In Soviet Russia...

[zoomshorts]

Kaspersky Labs is a Russian concern, a really nice AV product.
Eugene Kaspersky is a fantastic programmer and has always
had his hand in the business of stopping those sneaky bastards
who send us viruses and trojans and malware. :P

Re:In Soviet Russia...

[jonbryce]

They have offices in the US, from which they sell their software to US customers.

Re:Remember when...

[UbuntuDupe]

I remember "back in the day" when spyware was still something you needed a separate scanner (Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, etc..) for.

Uh, someone remind me what the modern way to remove spyware is?

I still use those programs :-/

Re:hmmm

[m50d]

1) how this cause stands up when something like Nortan AV "accidentally" gets blocked

They'd have a hard time claiming that was done in "good faith".

2)IANAL, but shouldn't this cover DRM? It falls under otherwise objectionable at the very least (filthy too, IMHO)

Does it come under "material" though? It's not as if the DRM is in a few bits on the end you can knock off, you have to extract the data out of the DRMed format it's in.

Zango

[Khaed]

I actually had to look up who they were, because I honestly had no idea. Not that I've never had to deal with spyware on a windows machine, just, I never paid enough attention to the names. I knew of Gator and Cool WWW Search by name before reading this.

I'm a little surprised they had the balls to bring a lawsuit about. Their hotbar apparently sends surfing habits back, they display pop ups, and it's somewhat of a bitch to uninstall -- my first question to their lawyers would be "So how are you NOT malware?"