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.

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That's because your fucking software is built to run in ActiveX! So when I get a virus in ActiveX, it shuts down ActiveX after embedding itself on my system, therefore Norton AV will NOT run and fails to clean up the virus. Congrats, I'm now a zombie. Thanks you stupid mother fuckers.