Legal Question in Legal Ethics in Oregon

What you want to do will be difficult. First, the "license" you agreed to when installing the program probably says that the company is not liable for any damage to y our computer. Second, you could certainly file a lawsuit against the company here in Oregon, but you would have to serve the company with the complaint and summons, probably at its headquarters. There might be a defense that merely offering stuff over the internet does not comprise "doing business" in Oregon sufficient to warrant jurisdiction by the Oregon courts. If so, you would have to sue them where their headquarters is located. This is getting pretty expensive already. If you win, you would then have to collect the judgment from them, which very often requires hiring a collections attorney to use the processes available in the state where the company is headquartered. The collections attorney has to take the Oregon court judgment and register it in that other state, then find assets of the company and institute proceedings to seize the assets. So it is a big task to do what you want to do.

You can, of course, complain on Epinions and other consumer complaint websites in order to warn others of this harmful software.