[dba-Tech] Symantec anti-virus flaw hits 30 products

I use McAfee, seems to avoid the problem too :-)


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Erbach [mailto:erbachs at gmail.com]
Sent: 11 February 2005 16:10
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Symantec anti-virus flaw hits 30 products


Jon,

I'm glad that I never upgraded from Norton 2003.

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI


On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:21:37 -0000, Jon Tydda <Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk>
wrote:
> Sorry for the cross post, but I thought this was worth it...
> 
> Symantec anti-virus flaw hits 30 products
> 
> By John
>
<http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2005/02/10/symantec_
> uberbug/> Leyden
> Published Thursday 10th February 2005 11:26 GMT
> 
> A cross-platform flaw affecting many Symantec security products - both
> consumer and enterprise - has been discovered. Users of Symantec's Norton
> SystemWorks 2004, Norton SystemWorks 2004 (both Mac and Windows), Norton
> AntiVirus 2004, corporate anti-virus apps and Brightmail anti-spam
software
> (among others) all need to apply patches following the discovery of the "
> highly critical <http://secunia.com/advisories/14179/> " security bug. In
> all 30 packages are affected.
>
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