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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. Symantec by ikejam · · Score: 1, Troll

    Symantec seems to be pulling a lot of crap these days, that is charecteristic of a company struggling to stay relevant and by making up for the degradation of quality in its products by othe means (like the other big one) - writing threat exaggeration articles trying scare customers, bloated inefficient personal antivirus solutions, and now vulnerabilities!

  2. meanwhile... by devhen · · Score: 1, Troll

    symantec is buying out anyone who begins to compete with them, limiting user choice to a single application suite that is both badly engineered and insecure. sounds like a perfect match for Windows.

  3. Was it a buffer overflow? or a bad pointer? by master_p · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because if it was, here we have one more piece of proof that C/C++ is a "not that good" programming language. For how long will the industry have to put up with this situation?