05-26-2006, 10:30 AM
A security hole has been found in Symantec Anti-Virus products that puts the 200 million users of the software at risk of a worm attack.
full article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1967941,00.asp
Quote: A gaping security flaw in the latest versions of Symantec's anti-virus software suite could put millions of users at risk of a debilitating worm attack, Internet security experts warned May 25.
Researchers at eEye Digital Security, the company that discovered the flaw, said it could be exploited by remote hackers to take complete control of the target machine "without any user action." ...
"We have confirmed that an attacker can execute code without the user clicking or opening anything," Puterbaugh said...
full article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1967941,00.asp