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

John Bartow john at winhaven.net
Fri Feb 11 11:07:21 CST 2005


Just a note on Norton Internet Security 2005. I recommend that people do not
upgrade to 2005 if they have 2003/2004. Its about 50/50 out there for
problems with 2005. The lucky people have no problems, the unlucky have
major headaches. I have had to help out numerous people who normally can
install an upgrade. One client - I had to turn off the liveupdate for one
component because the update disabled all communications and I could not
configure NIS at all after it was installed. This is a computer that has
very limited apps running on it (but one app is very specific for their
profession and I have no other client's using it so it may be a problem with
that application causing a conflict. The company that writes it does not yet
support SP2!)

John B. 

 


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 10:10 AM
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/sym
> antec_
> 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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