Symantec Says Its Own AV Product Has Zero-Day Vulnerability
 

Symantec Says Its Own AV Product Has Zero-Day Vulnerability

The security vendor says its enterprise anti-virus product line has an unpatched, "zero-day" vulnerability that can be used by attackers to hijack systems.

By Gregg Keizer
TechWeb.com

May 26, 2006 03:59 PM

Symantec acknowledged on Friday that its enterprise anti-virus product line has an unpatched, "zero-day" vulnerability that can be used by attackers to hijack systems.

"Symantec Antivirus is susceptible to a remote code-execution vulnerability. This issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM-level privileges, facilitating the complete compromise of affected computers," the company said in an alert Friday to customers of its own DeepSight Threat Management System.

Thursday, security vendor eEye Digital released a preliminary alert that said Symantec AntiVirus 10.x and Symantec Client Security 3.x included a remotely-exploitable vulnerability that could be attacked via a network-style worm which wouldn't require any user interaction to compromise a computer.

More: http://www.informationweek.com/indus...leID=188500744


Now this is just fucking funny. Even your virus scanner is out to get you these days. Good god.

I have used Norton ever since I began and never had a problem..Just dumped them because their software kept asking for user id and had to keep reinstalling and kept sucking resources.they had a good product

really i have found nortons to be rather useless. it sucks back the resources and always seems to miss the most obvious virii..

Several times i have helped local people get rid of virii and they all had nortons , and not once did it ever find any of them , and some of them were well known obvious virii, seems rather silly..

I dont run any virus protection , never have.. theres uses for firewalls , but most virus detection is either overcumbersome or useless.

I like www.antivirus.com online free check , just do that once in awhile and you will be fine ( infact in each of the aforementioned infections , antivirus.com always found the virus ( although couldnt entirely clean it , but none usually can fully clean them , you usually have to get the last files manually.)

oh and another good tip is to always keep an eye on security vulnerability sites .. like keep it bookmarked check it daily.. just for a few seconds..

viruses.



sorry.. had to do it. :batman

virii ... sorry had to do it... just because you make up words in your head , doesnt make them not real :winkwink:

viruses just seems like a wrong word it seems like pegasuses

Smokey is right. it's virii. kinda like octopi

no, it isnt.

nope, it's not viruses or virii.. it's viriises lol

Virii, Virus, and Viruses are all acceptable plural

Congrats to all WINNERS!!!!

:1orglaugh