During a federal court hearing Sept. 23, Lenovo representation pleaded with U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte not to certify a class for the case, as Lenovo was allegedly unaware of the malware in computers and the plaintiffs were not actually harmed by its presence, Courthouse News Service reports. “What we have here, your honor, are witnesses who are talking about a theoretical vulnerability that was never exploited," said Lenovo lawyer Daniel Stephenson. "This is a big class action with a lot of damages for people who were not injured." Plaintiffs’ lawyer Andrew Mura countered that consumers were “injured at the point of sale — by purchasing defective equipment with preinstalled malware they didn't know about, which reduced the value of their laptops,” the report states, calling Lenovo’s actions a “money-making scheme.” Whyte will issue a decision “in the coming months.”
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