Security software firmKaspersky Labhas
won a case brought by a company that wanted security blocks on
itsadwareremoved.
A US district court ruled in favour of Kaspersky Lab, granting
immunity from liability in the case brought by online media company
Zango.
Zango sued Kaspersky Lab to force the company to reclassify
Zango's programs as non-threatening and to prevent Kaspersky Labs's
security software from blocking Zango's "potentially undesirable
programs", said Kaspersky
The judge threw out the lawsuit on the grounds that Kaspersky
was immune from liability under the
Communications
Decency Act, part of which states: "No provider or user of an
interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of any
action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or
availability of material that the provider or user considers to be
obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing,
or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is
constitutionally protected."
Kaspersky said the ruling protects anti-malware providers' right
to identify and label software programs that may be potentially
unwanted and harmful to a user's computer as they see fit.
Zango had already dropped a case it brought against another
security firm.