Tough week for Symantec

Security firm suffers security bug and incompatibility criticism.

After announcing on Friday the discovery of a vulnerability in its

Backup Exec

software,

Symantec

suffered press criticism when the beta of its forthcoming

Norton Confidential

anti-phishing software was revealed to be incompatible with current versions of

Norton AntiVirus

, and other security software from the firm.

Symantec

has issued patches to fix the overflow problem in

Backup Exec

, while beta testers must uninstall any copies of

Norton

AV, IS, Personal Firewall or

SystemWorks

to try out the new technology. The anti-phishing tools are expected to be merged into the future

Norton 360

all-in-one security suite.

Read about the security flaw

here

, and see some views of the incompatibility problem

here

and

here

. See the announcement of the vulnerability from

Symantec


here

and apply for a beta trial of the new software

here

.

Posted on 14 August 2006 by

Virus Bulletin