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Massive Exploit in Symantec Products

Symantec, most popularly known for their Norton line of products (including Norton Systemworks, Norton Utilities, Norton Disk Doctor, Norton Antivirus, and Norton Internet Security, to name a few) is under the microscope due to a massive exploit in over 30 of their software packages (most importantly, the Norton line) that could allow a malicious hacker to inject malware or malicious code on their systems using the oh-so-popular buffer overflow.

To my knowledge, Symantec has already issued a patch to deal with the issues, and they should be available from Symantec directly, even though they have no information on the issue on the front page of their website.

Read all about it:
[ http://news.com.com/Symantec+flaw+leaves+opening+for+viruses/2100-1002_3-5569811.html ]

and more information, including a link with details on obtaining the critical update needed to fix the exploit, is here:
[ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/10/symantec_uberbug/ ]

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