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Symantec AntiVirus Hole Found

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the safer-than-sorry dept.

Hotwater Mountain writes "eWeek has a story about a gaping security flaw in the latest versions of Symantec's anti-virus software suite that could put millions of users at risk of a debilitating worm attack. According to eEye Digital Security, the company that discovered the flaw, the vulnerability could be exploited by remote hackers to take complete control of the target machine 'without any user action.'"

4 of 241 comments (clear)

  1. Re:That saves time! by jon1nim · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    and this surprises who? I guess only the people who use this cr@p software!

  2. Ever since Symantec took on Microsoft... by jkrise · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This was bound to happen.

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    If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
  3. Yet again . . . by pembo13 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    . . . it sucks to be a Windows user.

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    "Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
  4. Re:Was it a buffer overflow? or a bad pointer? by k8to · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes blame the programmers. If only those programmers were magically better, then the tools would be JUST FINE. I'm sure when you stop hiding your magic hat from which you can produce an endless stream of perfect programmers that our long security crisis will be over.

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    -josh