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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

A Gaping Security Flaw Discovered in Norton Antivirus

May 18, 2016

Symantec can't be very happy since British white hat hacker, Tavis Ormandy, discovered a huge bug in the core Symantec Antivirus Engine. The flaw is cross-platform and impacts Windows, Mac and *nix operating systems. The bad guys just need to send a carefully formatted file via e-mail or any other method that would force a virus scan of the file. The user doesn't even have to open the file. The bug allows a hacker to gain root access to the target computer. The good news is that Symantec already has a fix, so make sure you run Live Update as soon as possible.

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