Symantec Posts Fix To Vulnerability

An anonymous reader writes "Just a few days after it was discovered, Symantec has posted a fix to a critical flaw with its Antivirus software." From the article: "The eEye digital security firm reported the problem initially, and discovered it was present in the newest versions of the affected Symantec products. Further research noted by Symantec described the problem as a flaw that made the products vulnerable to a stack overflow. Once exploited, that overflow could have permitted an attacker to execute code on the machine, with System level rights. The issue was made worse by being one that impacted enterprise-level customers, big spenders that purchase hundreds or thousands of licenses depending on the size of the business. "

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Why bother?

[bmo]

Every day that I see yet another article about evil bits of malware infecting Windows machines. It makes me glad that I switched off that platform long ago. Windows is no longer viable, and this article and a mountain of others is testament to that fact. No, it's not because Windows is popular. It's because it's broken as designed. You would think that there would be a tiny fraction of viruses and worms in the *ix (Linux, Macintosh, Sun) universe based on the popularity ratio, but there isn't. There isn't even a smidge of the effects seen in the Windows world. Point me at a single live virus active in the *ix universe.

You can't.

It's so much work to just get a Windows system secure that it's simply no longer worth it to even bother. Save your sanity and switch to another platform.

Don't deal with the dirty hobos anymore.

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BMO