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Microsoft Ordered To Pull 'misleading' Security Ad
By ZDNet UK
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Article Date: 2003-03-24
The company's claims that its software is more secure than a bank vault have not impressed South Africa's advertising standards authority. Microsoft claimed in an advertisement that its software is so secure, it will make hackers extinct. As it turned out, it was the ad which bit the dust.
South Africa's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered the software giant to withdraw what they termed an "unsubstantiated and misleading" print commercial last week following official complaints from freelance journalist Richard Clarke.
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