Norton Antivirus Patch has security vulnerability
Norton antivirus is one of the most trusted antivirs programs that many computer users use to protect them from various vulnerabilities like virus programs, mailware and many other vulnerabilities, but what if the antivirus program latest patches contain the vulnerabilities that can harm your computer system. This is what several people found that thses vulnerabilities affecting the ActiveX control. What are these vulnerabilities have a look
- Stack based buffer overflow which could allow a successful attacker to run code of their choice in the context of the user’s browser.
- The second occurs due to a design error in the process used to look for and launch the AutoFix Tool. If successfully exploited, an attacker could load and execute code of their choice from a remote share.
Note : Norton 360 1.0, Norton Antivirus 2006-2008, Norton Internet Security 2006-2008 and Norton System Works 2006-2008, all of them for the Windows platform. Norton 360 2.0, Norton Antivirus for Macintosh, Norton Internet Security for Mac, Norton Personal Firewall for Mac and Norton Smartphone Security for Windows are all secure.
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April 8th, 2008 at 12:06 am
ahh good old Norton. This isn’t the first time. This happened once or twice last year too. I prefer Trend Micro over Symantec when it comes to antivirus.