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Symantec Antivirus May Execute Virus Code
An anonymous reader writes "Symantec has admitted that a serious vulnerability exists in the way its scanning engine handles Ultimate Packer for Executables. According to a ZDNet article, this means the scanner would execute the malicious program instead of catching it. Tim Hartman, senior technical director for Symantec Asia Pacific, said: "A vulnerability is not a vulnerability till somebody discovers it but because this is now known, somebody could craft an e-mail, mass mailer or a virus that takes advantage of it. It affects our firewalls, antispam, all the retail products and the enterprise products as well"" Symantec recommends you immediately patch your software.
May I be the first to congratulate our executable overlords!
http://fedora.redhat.com/
No time to waste! Systems may already be infected, so better get offline immediately, review what installed software is at risk and start figuring out a way to get the patches... no, wait, I run linux.
Wonder what's on TV tonight?
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
if you went in for an STD test and they gave you herpes!
That's because they gave out the wrong link. What they really meant to say was, "Symantec recommends you immediately patch your software."
No, you've got it all wrong. The person didn't actually exist, and all of the people who thought about the person existing didn't exist either. And all of the people who thought the person might or might not exist, but probably didn't, and should therefore be disregarded, were very clever and were hired by anti-virus companies to do their PR for them.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Will
You know all those idiotic flamewars that spring up whenever the "irony" tag is used?
Once and for all - THIS is irony. You can shut up now.
I think he is a quantum physicist...
I guess Santa isn't Dancing anymore.
> > "A vulnerability is not a vulnerability till somebody discovers it..."
> Huh?
Sir Lancelot: "I hate to go into battle with this big f*ing hole in my chainmail, but fortunately my tabard will hide it."
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
#!/bin/sh /`
echo Scanning...
for file in `find
do
sudo $file
if system_still_running
then
echo File $f OK
fi
done
Did Microsoft buy out Norton last week?
You must not have gotten the latest memo from Symantec: "We apologise again for the fault in the antivirus software. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked."
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
I've always suspected that they had a cat in a box somewhere....
True.
If only it had excellent anti-virus features to go with them.
>> Okay, so I'm being lazy and don't want to call them
Translation: I didn't pay for the software so I can't call them
Tim Hartman, senior technical director for Symantec Asia Pacific, said:
"A vulnerability is not a vulnerability till somebody discovers it...
Impressive foresight. Another great security through obscurity business model.
No tiny Tim, if your tire can be flattened, it will be. It's that simple.
As long as it's not company policy ie. each employee that uses it is installing it for personal use, it's free.
I worked for a company that refused to pay for AV, and we all had it on our desktops, except the managers.
So what part of "home" did you all deliberately misunderstand?
You can always wait and switch to the Microsoft Anti-Virus that will ensure the safety of your computer by making sure it cannot run at all.
Voting them all out of office, now that's change I can believe in.
Symantec Antivirus May Execute Virus Code
I don't care if Symantec runs virus code, just as long as windows doesn't.
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You can always wait and switch to the Microsoft Anti-Virus
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I thought this was funny
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