SAN FRANCISCO — Attorneys for Chinese laptop maker Lenovo Group Ltd. have taken their first shot at stamping out litigation claiming that software pre-installed on its notebook computers left customers vulnerable to cyberattacks.

In court papers filed Thursday, the company’s lawyers at K&L Gates maintain that Lenovo acted quickly to address the security glitch created by adware that came installed on certain Lenovo models. K&L Gates partner Daniel Stephenson wrote that no customers were actually hacked as a result of the problem and the plaintiffs have suffered no harm.

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