Rootkit-like Feature Found in Norton Systemworks

GenieGenieGenie writes "eWeek reports a rootkit-like 'feature' in Symantec's Norton Systemworks, discovered by the Mark Russinovich, who was also responsible for blowing the whistle on Sony's DRM rootkit. The cloaked directory is intended to prevent users from accidentally deleting important files, but could compromise a system by serving as a hiding place for malware, as was the case with Sony's rootkit. Russinovich says Symantec had good intentions, but they were right to post an update to fix this hole."

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Deleting files

[gr8_phk]

They did it so users couldn't accidentally delete important files?? Sure would be nice if there was such thing as "root" on Windows so you could have files that every day users couldn't delete...