Norton and VirusScan afflicted.
Symantec
has issued details of a minor bug in its
Norton
AV software – a recent update left some users seeing confusing messages claiming the products no longer supported repairing.
Meanwhile
McAfee
, already taking flak for its confused attitude to open-source in its 20MB ‘Sage’ pdf, is getting early reports of a vulnerability in its software. A patch for the bug, which apparently allows remote stealing of passwords and data, is
due to be released
today (2 August).
Read about the
McAfee
issue here:
http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/3465241.html
.
A report of the
Symantec
issue sighted in the wild can be read here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33385
.
Symantec
‘s simple instructions for fixing the bug in its products can be found here:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/0/84551c7f6c94dea8882571bb001c13c6?OpenDocument
.
Posted on 02 August 2006 by
Virus Bulletin
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