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Does this product contravene UK consumer protection legislation?

Oldwilliam
This seems to be a very useful software tool for patching/warning the home user about vulnerabilities and about malware such as trojans, but as it's labelled as an "anti-virus" product, and no-one has ever yet demonstrated the existence of a virus for a *nix-based operating system (or else they would have claimed the substantial prize offered for many years by Netproject for infecting a properly-configured Linux box with a virus!), does this product breach UK consumer protection legislation? It certainly claims, by implication, that *nix viruses exist, the truth of which Sophos would have to demonstrate publicly (e.g. to the Advertising Standards Authority) if a complaint was made.
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    Also, can you please provide any references to the Netproject prize you referred?

    Bear in mind that this has been going on since long before the Web was a popular medium!  Get in touch with Eddie Bleasedale of Netproject Limited... you should find references to the company in relation to the scandalous practices of Newham Borough Council and Microsoft when the council ran a Linux pilot project, found that it saved them a fortune in running costs, then struck up a closed-doors post-contract negotiating session with Microsoft for a special one-off licensing deal that neither party will disclose publicly.  It meant that Newham got the best deal in the end but only at rates that Microsft refuses to give to anyone else, because it was determined not to lose a public sector customer to Linux at any cost whatsoever.

    My own view is that what went on was criminal, because public bodies are legally required to follow EC procedures for contract negotiation, and display openness and fairness to all tenderers, but then Microsoft has already paid over a billion Euros to the European Court of First Instance for criminal offences in relation to abusing its market position, so I don't get too worked up about it... :)

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    Also, can you please provide any references to the Netproject prize you referred?

    Bear in mind that this has been going on since long before the Web was a popular medium!  Get in touch with Eddie Bleasedale of Netproject Limited... you should find references to the company in relation to the scandalous practices of Newham Borough Council and Microsoft when the council ran a Linux pilot project, found that it saved them a fortune in running costs, then struck up a closed-doors post-contract negotiating session with Microsoft for a special one-off licensing deal that neither party will disclose publicly.  It meant that Newham got the best deal in the end but only at rates that Microsft refuses to give to anyone else, because it was determined not to lose a public sector customer to Linux at any cost whatsoever.

    My own view is that what went on was criminal, because public bodies are legally required to follow EC procedures for contract negotiation, and display openness and fairness to all tenderers, but then Microsoft has already paid over a billion Euros to the European Court of First Instance for criminal offences in relation to abusing its market position, so I don't get too worked up about it... :)

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