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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.'"

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  1. Re:No wai- by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's like the firebrigade trying to save your house with flamethrowers.

    Or it's like politicians destroying the rights of the citizenry to protect them from terrorists.

    LK

    --
    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  2. Re:Fire elementals by hackwrench · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But what do fire elementals feed on? If you use Fist of Ixiblat to burn up their food source, that would be using fire to fight fire as suggested.

  3. Re:But if they want to save development cycles... by RemovableBait · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't have mod points today, but consider this my +1, Funny.

    You brightened up my day, cheers!