Symantec AV may execute viruses

Thu Feb 10 19:23:43 UTC 2005

Oh, wow, I see how I missed that - I had already scrolled half way down 
the page and was looking at the Consumer Products section under 
"Non-Vulnerable Products"...  woops :)

Looking at it more closely, they are saying the same thing twice:

Affected Product - only affected prior to build x.y.z
and then
Non-Vulnerable Product - only non-vulnerable starting with build x.y.z

--
Jeff Wheeler
Postmaster, Network Admin
US Institute of Peace

On Feb 10, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Brance Amussen :)_S wrote:

>
> Here are the listed Mac products, according to the website
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.02.08.html
>
> Consumer products section..
>
> Symantec Norton Antivirus 2004 for Macintosh
> Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004 for Macintosh
> Symantec Norton System Works 2004 for Macintosh
> Symantec Norton Antivirus 9.0 for Macintosh
> Symantec Norton Internet Security for Macintosh 3.0
> Symantec Norton System Works for Macintosh 3.0
>
> Also, You can configure in the Systems Center Console for the corporate
> edition (server) to download product updates as well..
> Now if I can only figure out these version numbers..
>
> Brance :)_S
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf 
> Of Jeff
> Wheeler
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:18 PM
> To: Colin Johnston
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Symantec AV may execute viruses
>
>
> I would actually expect LiveUpdate for the home versions to get the 
> update
> automatically.  The corporate edition however does not update the 
> software
> via LiveUpdate - they figure IT departments would rather control when 
> the
> software gets updated themselves, but unfortunately in most companies 
> that
> probably means almost never :\
>
> Also, it doesn't appear that this issue effects the Mac software (at 
> least,
> I didn't see the Mac products in the Symantec vulnerability list), only
> Windows products.
>
> --
> Jeff Wheeler
> Postmaster, Network Admin
> US Institute of Peace
>
>
> On Feb 10, 2005, at 1:07 PM, Colin Johnston wrote:
>
>> Any ideas why Symantec have not released the updated code to
>> LiveUpdate for Mac and LiveUpdate for PC ??
>>
>> Colin Johnston
>> TTL
>>  c.johnston at ngat.com
>>
>>
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