Symantec Antivirus May Execute Virus Code

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 10, 2005 @03:35AM from the antivirus-not-so-anti dept.

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.

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FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-10 03:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

EAT A GIANT DICK
Antivirus by Zlib+pt · 2005-02-10 03:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Does it remove windows with this patch ?
1. Re:Antivirus by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-10 04:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  YOU are teh fuNNY!! HAHAhahahaha!!!! LOL!!
Re:Imagine how pissed you would be by MyLongNickName · 2005-02-10 04:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why would anyone at Slashdot need a herpes test? :)

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