Symantec AntiVirus Hole Found 241
Hotwater Mountain writes "eWeek has a story about a gaping security flaw in the latest versions of Symantec's anti-virus software suite that could put millions of users at risk of a debilitating worm attack. According to eEye Digital Security, the company that discovered the flaw, the vulnerability could be exploited by remote hackers to take complete control of the target machine 'without any user action.'"
That saves time! (Score:5, Funny)
(ouch, that was a little harsh)
No wai- (Score:2, Funny)
Good news, everyone! (Score:5, Funny)
So people have discovered Nortons DRM Rootkit? (Score:5, Funny)
Who has heard that conspiracy theory (Score:5, Funny)
*grabs tinfoil hat*
Re:Good news, everyone! (Score:5, Funny)
Toss in the complete inability to hack that most script kiddies have... and now you also have security through stupidity.
I always loved watching my snort logs when some kiddie attempted to 0wn my FreeBSD server running Zope/Plone + Apache by tossing every IIS 5 attack they have a script for.
Re:No wai- (Score:5, Funny)
startkeylogger (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No wai- (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, wait...
idiots (Score:3, Funny)
Best Example of Irony (Score:1, Funny)
this has to be one of the best examples of irony, ever.
Re:Details? (Score:5, Funny)
OK, let me try:
Perfect security - and the Quis custodet ipsos custodes? problem solved. Rather neat...
Re:Details? (Score:5, Funny)
Bang - no NIC, no malicious traffic from the internet.
Thank you (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Details? (Score:5, Funny)
I thought everybody agreed that this was the purpose of dual core CPUs for Windows machines. One to run the bundled Norton crud, one to run the apps.
Of course some people follow the advice of their more enlightened friends/neighbours/family and switch to other products or other systems.
(note: this does not apply to corporate networks unless they are handled by idiots. Um. Doesn't apply to *all* corporate networks.)
Re:Free alternatives to Symantec Antivirus (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Details? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That saves time! (Score:5, Funny)
For example, when I read "could suck money out of an Enron Execs. hand!", I thought you meant that they could suck money out of Enron executives, and just had a gratuitous "an" shoved in there (or accidentally pluralized "Exec"); and I couldn't understand the seemingly misplaced exclamation "hand!" So, I read it as follows:
This thoroughly confused me. It took me way too long to determine that you were attempting to properly abbreviate the word "executive" while also making it posessive. While probably not more gramatically correct, a clearer way to write it would be:
Now, if I thought it took a long time to figure out what you meant, imagine how much time I've wasted writing this!
ObSymantec: I try to discourage people from using Symantec products. In my ~14 years experience with their stuff, I've found that their antivirus is expensive, slows the computer down way too much, and is no more effective than any other; and I've also found that their other utilities tend to be mostly snake oil. It wasn't always that way -- DOS and even Windows 3.1 versions of Norton Utilities were actually useful _and_ unique. Since the program that gazillions of folks use to secure their machine is opening holes, maybe it's time for everybody to move on.
Oh yeah, and...
Hand!
But if they want to save development cycles... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Details? (Score:1, Funny)
Unfortunately this is only half right. With the release of Windows Vista it'll be one processor for the OS and one for Norton.
Trio Core CPU next??
Unitentional release of new feature (Score:4, Funny)
surreal irony (Score:3, Funny)
That's like making an operating system that causes a computer not to operate.
Oh, wait...