This was already sent out to all LC5 customers. Symantec has planned to kill the product for a long time....
--Avenger
Dear LC Customer,
The purpose of this letter is to notify you that Symantec Corporation is discontinuing its L0phtCrack (LC) product line and will no longer provide product code updates, enhancements or fixes to this product line.
Key dates in this process are listed below.
Last Order Date: February 28, 2006
Last Ship Date: March 3, 2006
Customer Help Until Date: December 16, 2006
Symantec will continue to use reasonable commercial efforts to provide available customer support by email to US and Canada based customers who purchased L0phtCrack (LC) products through the dates indicated above. As a courtesy to LC customers, we offer customer help via email regarding product usability inquiries through December 16, 2006.
An FAQ for Licensed Users of L0phtCrack (LC) Products is also attached to help answer commonly asked questions. If you have additional questions about our notification, please contact us by email at mailto:Americas-LCcustserv@symantec.com.
Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Sales Operations
Symantec Corporation
Either this has been posted or soon will be. To me, this doesn't seem like the "massive Internet outage" risk that Michael was talking about...
Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS®) Software is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) and potentially an arbitrary code execution attack from a specifically crafted IPv6 packet. The packet must be sent from a local network segment. Only devices that have been explicitly configured to process IPv6 traffic are affected. Upon successful exploitation, the device may reload or be open to further exploitation.
Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability for all affected customers.
Weatherbug now has (during install) a checkbox for WhenU.com. Last time that I tested it out, it was checked ON by default. Since most end-users don't know what WhenU is, they happily install the spyware.
It isn't allowed at my organization; if you look at my linked article, you would see that AOL IM 5.5 installs it *automatically*. At that point, it happily reports back to WildTangent.com...
--Keith Young
I think that you didn't read my post completely.
The problem is not the software packages that *always* contained spyware/adware/license-mods/etc, but the ones that get an auto-update and install the latest crap.
As for the $25.00 cost, what will stop your favorite anti-virus vendor from adding the same "features" into their latest engine download?
Trust me, this is only the beginning to "surprises" being added into software on the fly....
--Keith Young
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--Avenger
Dear LC Customer,
The purpose of this letter is to notify you that Symantec Corporation is discontinuing its L0phtCrack (LC) product line and will no longer provide product code updates, enhancements or fixes to this product line.
Key dates in this process are listed below.
Last Order Date: February 28, 2006
Last Ship Date: March 3, 2006
Customer Help Until Date: December 16, 2006
Symantec will continue to use reasonable commercial efforts to provide available customer support by email to US and Canada based customers who purchased L0phtCrack (LC) products through the dates indicated above. As a courtesy to LC customers, we offer customer help via email regarding product usability inquiries through December 16, 2006.
An FAQ for Licensed Users of L0phtCrack (LC) Products is also attached to help answer commonly asked questions. If you have additional questions about our notification, please contact us by email at mailto:Americas-LCcustserv@symantec.com.
Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Sales Operations Symantec Corporation
Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS®) Software is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) and potentially an arbitrary code execution attack from a specifically crafted IPv6 packet. The packet must be sent from a local network segment. Only devices that have been explicitly configured to process IPv6 traffic are affected. Upon successful exploitation, the device may reload or be open to further exploitation.
Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability for all affected customers.
Weatherbug now has (during install) a checkbox for WhenU.com. Last time that I tested it out, it was checked ON by default. Since most end-users don't know what WhenU is, they happily install the spyware.
--Keith
It isn't allowed at my organization; if you look at my linked article, you would see that AOL IM 5.5 installs it *automatically*. At that point, it happily reports back to WildTangent.com... --Keith Young
I think that you didn't read my post completely. The problem is not the software packages that *always* contained spyware/adware/license-mods/etc, but the ones that get an auto-update and install the latest crap. As for the $25.00 cost, what will stop your favorite anti-virus vendor from adding the same "features" into their latest engine download? Trust me, this is only the beginning to "surprises" being added into software on the fly.... --Keith Young