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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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    There are MULTIPLE viruses that exploit OS X , there are also rootkits and vulnerabilities, not to mention scripted crap ,  written in basic ,java and JS (javascript)

    Just because you are not running under the 'root' account  DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE SAFE!!!!!,  yes they might not be able to 'install' something on your computer, but they can certainly own you and your whole network if you have  not done what you should have done.

    please feel free to continue to 'jack off' about the exact wording you think has to be used when your computer/ network security fails and you get owned. In the end you are still owned no matter how much you may cry about the terms being incorrectly applied.

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    There are MULTIPLE viruses that exploit OS X , there are also rootkits and vulnerabilities, not to mention scripted crap ,  written in basic ,java and JS (javascript)

    Just because you are not running under the 'root' account  DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE SAFE!!!!!,  yes they might not be able to 'install' something on your computer, but they can certainly own you and your whole network if you have  not done what you should have done.

    please feel free to continue to 'jack off' about the exact wording you think has to be used when your computer/ network security fails and you get owned. In the end you are still owned no matter how much you may cry about the terms being incorrectly applied.

    :1001039
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