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.

Comments

Symantic owes us money for a broken product.

[BrentRJones]

I gave up on NAV. Always wanting subscription cash. Always wanting you to upgrade.

AVG for free is for me.

Re:Better than just free

[LinuxTek]

You do realize that AVG is not supposed to be free for companies. Only for personal use. If you really like AVG you should pay for it, so they get revenue and keep building the great product they have.

I do have the personal free edition for my home laptop, and it is a great program (although it had some issues with SP2 and some Nero drivers).