IF YOU PURCHASED PRODUCTS FROM MCAFEE THROUGH WWW.MCAFEE.COM BETWEEN APRIL 2006 AND AUGUST 16, 2011 AND SUBSEQUENTLY CLICKED THROUGH A POP-UP AD OFFER PRESENTED AT THE END OF THE TRANSACTION, YOU COULD RECEIVE A PAYMENT FROM A CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT, AND YOUR RIGHTS WILL BE AFFECTED BY IT.
A class action settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit against McAfee, Inc. (“Mcafee”) and ARPU, Inc. d/b/a Tryandbuy.com (“ARPU” or “Tryandbuy.com”) (collectively “Defendants”) pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District Of California (styled Melissa Ferrington, Cheryl Schmidt, Christopher Bennett and Christi Hall v. McAfee, Inc. and ARPU, Inc. d/b/a Tryandbuy.com, Class Action Case No. 5:10-cv-01455 LHK) challenging alleged misleading pop-up ads offered by Arpu d/b/a TryandBuy.com for various products (such as PerfectSpeed, PerfectDisk, System Mechanic and Search and Recover) immediately prior to customers downloading McAfee anti-virus software they had purchased and the transfer of credit and billing information from McAfee to Arpu, according to the McAfee & ARPU TryandBuy.com “Try It Now” Pop Up Ad Class Action Settlement notice.
The McAfee & ARPU TryandBuy.com “Try It Now” Pop Up Ad class action lawsuit settlement reportedly includes, unless otherwise excluded, all persons in the United States who clicked through a pop-up advertisement from Arpu at the conclusion of a transaction with McAfee on the McAfee website between April 2006 and the date of the class action notice and whose confidential billing information was transferred by McAfee to Arpu, and who were subsequently charged for the software sold by Arpu in the pop-up ad.
Under the McAfee & ARPU TryandBuy.com “Try It Now” Pop Up Ad settlement, McAfee and Arpu have reportedly agreed to provide Approved Claimants their choice of: (1) Cash equaling $5 for each month the claimant paid charges in connection with software offered in Arpu’s pop-up advertisement offered at the conclusion of a transaction on McAfee’s website (“Software”), up to a maximum of $30 per claim, for those Plaintiff Settlement Class Members who were billed by Arpu monthly, and/or $5 for each prepaid month, up to a maximum of $30 per claim, for charges in connection with Software for those Plaintiff Settlement Class Members who were billed annually for an annual Software license; or (2) a software license for the current version of McAfee Family Protection for: (a) six months for those class members who were charged for fewer than six months by Arpu for Software or (b) twelve months for those class members who demonstrate six months or more of charges paid to Arpu for Software.
The Court will hold a hearing at 1:30 p.m., on December 15, 2011, at the United States District Courthouse, 280 South 1st Street, Courtroom 8, San Jose, California, 95113 to consider whether the McAfee & ARPU TryandBuy.com “Try It Now” Pop Up Ad class action settlement is fair, reasonable, and adequate.
For more information on the McAfee & ARPU TryandBuy.com “Try It Now” Pop Up Ad class action settlement, visit the Arpu McAfee Pop Up Ad class action settlement website:
www.arpumcafeepopupad.info
If You Have Thoughts On The McAfee & ARPU TryandBuy.com “Try It Now” Pop Up Ad Class Action Lawsuit Settlement, Share Your Class Action Settlement Comments Below.
I received MacAfee with my purchase of a new Dell computer just recently. Yes, I have many issues. They do put up bogus pop up’s! at about 15 days of free trial, they tell you your computer has serious threats, which other reputable software does not confirm. They block your computer from any online access to other than them! When you pay for the subscription, it goes nowhere! You get no subscription. When you call them, they claim they never charged your CR Card. But they do. When you try to uninstall their software, it won’t let you. I restored my computer and immediately uninstalled MacAfee, but MacAfee deleted all the “open” programs for any downloads. From that point you can download anything, but you can’t open it to run it. Thereby crippling your computer from using any other antivirus software. When you try to restore the “open” program(s) they take you to bogus sites that claim to resolve this, but, actually deceive you into buying other irrelevant software. I’m thinking Dell may be working in collusion with MacAfee since I have notified them of this as of about three months ago when I first purchased my new computer and they have done nothing to resolve it. I have a new computer that is basically good for nothing as a result of MacAfee, I think Dell should be added to a class action lawsuit!!! – MS Computer Science, Jonathan