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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 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.
-- Game Developers: Stop porting badly-textured games from crappy console systems!
Hrm.. I was reading this from cache on my laptop and had no intention of logging back online today... but when I read what you wrote I figured that I really ought to dial-up again just to tell you how much of a stupid fucking jackass you are; Wybaar.
Your statement, aside from being annoyingly smarmy doesn't make any fucking sense. As in: what the fuck are you talking about you randy lil' fancy lad.
If you keep on acting like a bitch, sooner or later, someone's going to have to smack you like a bitch.
I just wish I could be there to see the bifocals and universal studios florida hat fly off your oversized zitbean.
Die.