[mnajem]

http://neosmart.net/...ove-you-rinbot/

"What kind of anti-virus product only updates once a week (on Wednesdays). What kind of company labels a complete remote control vulnerability as “unimportant?” And most importantly, what kind of security company lets its product remain installed without updating?

Shame on Time Warner for hiring IT Guys that don’t know how to pick a decent anti-virus solution, and for being too thick to realize they need to manually update Symantec’s software. And shame on Symantec for doing this to its customers. Wake up people, Symantec’s not in it for your security, only your money. "

http://news.com.com/..._3-6078160.html

Vincent Weafer, a senior director at Symantec Security Response, said Tuesday. However, because there are no known attacks that exploit the flaw, the need to patch is not urgent, he added.

[iostream]

Apa sudah jadi dengan Symantec ni.....

Symantec false positive cripples thousands of Chinese PCs
http://computerworld...ticleId=9019958

May 18, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A signature update to Symantec's anti-virus software crippled thousands of Chinese PCs Friday when the security software took two critical Windows .dll files for malware.

According to numerous blog entries from Chinese computer users, a virus signature database seeded yesterday mistook two system files of a Chinese edition of Windows XP SP2 as a Trojan horse which Symantec dubs "Backdoor.Haxdoor." The anti-virus software -- Norton AntiVirus, for example, or the anti-virus component of the Norton 360 or Norton Internet Security suites -- then quarantined the netapi32.dll and lsasrv.dll files.

[zamri]

IMO, Norton Antivirus is bloated. Kaspersky is better but I use open source antivirus, clamav.

[mnajem]

"remove" function tu quite extreme (kes DLL file Symantec).
sepatutnya setakat quarantine saja.