Thursday, December 22, 2005
Dammit!
AV companies admit huge errors
Symantec, Norton, McAfee AV flawed...THERE ARE holes in the libraries of anti-virus products from Symantec, and Norton which could be used to gain control of an infected machine....I have very little to say except it burns the hell out of me that I have to protect my computer because others choose to make viruses, trojan horses, and whatever else, they have out there, that can attack a computer. Whatever happened to the concept of leaving other folks' stuff alone?
...AntiVirus Library’s job is to detect malware by looking at a number of files in different formats. ...
...If the virus writer knows what they are doing, they can remotely control the library to gain complete control over the affected system. ...
...Symantec said the flaw affects AntiVirus Corporate Editon, Brightmail Anti-Spam; Client Security; Gateway Security; Norton AntiVirus; Norton Antivirus for Macintosh; Norton AntiVirus for Microsoft Exchange; and Norton Internet Security...
