Security software insecure
Found on The Inquirer on Wednesday, 30 March 2005
Online security firm Symantec said some of it anti-virus software has holes in it.
The company admitted its Norton Antivirus, Norton Internet Security and Norton System Works, 2004 and 2005 editions, were so flawed hackers could quite easily sneak in and knobble computers running the software.
Japan's Information-Technology Promotion Agency told Symantec about one situation with both Windows versions of Norton AntiVirus 2004 and 2005, where a real-time scan of a specific file type can cause the Blue Screen of Death to appear.
The programs' Auto-Protect and SmartScan features were found to be faulty and susceptible to Denial of Service attacks.
Good thing I would never use Symantec products. They are total resource hogs and there are lots of applications which do a better job.