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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.
That's because they gave out the wrong link. What they really meant to say was, "Symantec recommends you immediately patch your software."
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.
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?