Symantec Updates Cause Chaos in China

Hello Kitty writes "According to Computerworld, a signature update to Symantec's anti-virus software has knocked out thousands of Chinese PCs. Apparently the latest update for the AV component of the various Norton packages mistook two system files in the Chinese edition of Windows XP SP2 for the 'Backdoor.Haxdoor' trojan. Piracy issues may complicate recovery, since once the updates are installed Symantec says the only hope for reviving an affected system is to re-copy the affected DLLs from the Windows restore disks. Everyone has their official restore disks handy, right?"

Comments

Yes.

[khasim]

All localized Windows versions? 33 MUI versions and 27 LIPs? Original XP, SP1, SP2 and other intermediate patched up versions?

Yes. If they need help I'm sure that VMWare will be happy to provide them some expertise (seeing as how they seem to be sorely lacking it). And than is JUST FOR INSTALLING THE PATCH.

And you don't need to test "other intermediate patched up versions".

This is a virus scanner. Right?

So they only need to test against the various released versions of the files. All they need is a set of DIRECTORIES with the files to be scanned in them.

So one box could have ALL the various patches for that system. Based upon the variances in the files. One box for the US release. One box for the Spanish release. Etc.

And as I said, they don't have to be physical boxes. VMWare can help out a whole lot in that regard.

It's called "Computer SCIENCE" for a reason.

Re:no sympathy

[ozmanjusri]

Try typing
#rm -f /bin/init
and lets see how far your computer gets?

Still fine.

Probably be different if I was logged in as root, but Linux discourages that.