Symantec products affected by critical vulnerability

[GomJabbar]

Symantec Says Vulnerability Hits 63 Products

And I was one of the few people that thought Norton was OK.

Symantec on Wednesday named more than 60 of its products as affected by the critical vulnerability disclosed earlier this week, and said it was pushing out a "heuristic detection that would spot potential exploits. However, no patches have yet been released.

[jdhurst]

It seems to me that nearly every product today has vulnerabilities that can cause problems. I use the Symantec Corporate products and I hope they patch them soon. VMware just issued V5.51 because a severe vulnerability exists in their NAT networking (at least for the Linux product). Microsoft still owes us security patches. Sun Java was recently re-issued (again). VPN's have to be updated. The list appears to be endless. ... JD Hurst

[davidspalding]

Norton ... the first thing I booted off my system out of the box. Big, and clunky, and slow.

I just got some software and a 3M mousepad from Amazon. A copy of Symantec Procomm 4.8 was in the box, neither ordered or listed on the invoice. I think they used it as dunnage for my box. Now if that isn't the most pathetic dumping of software -- "We're giving it away as packing material, it's cheaper than those little inflated bubble-bags" -- I dunno what is.

Or perhaps there's a Secret Santa at Amazon. The title lists at US$139 on their site.