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Vulnerabilities Found in Symantec Client Products

Unknown   on 14 May 2004 - 02:48 · 8 comments & 583 views

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Symantec has acknowledged several serious bugs in several of its client security products in both corporate and consumer editions.

The problems, reported to Symantec Corp. by eEye Digital Security, involve several functions of the products but one specific file, SYMDNS.SYS.

Symantec has provided a brief description, stating that fixes for all of the problems are available through its LiveUpdate and technical-support channels.

Products affected include Symantec Client Firewall versions 5.0.0 through 5.1.1; Symantec Client Security 1.0.0, 1.1.0 and 2.0.0; Norton AntiSpam 2004; Norton Internet Security 2002 through 2004; and Norton Internet Security Professional Edition 2002 through 2004.

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News source: eWeek


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(4 replies) #1 aristotle-dude on 14 May 2004 - 02:51
Buy a hardware router/firewall instead.
#1.1 NeoSoft on 14 May 2004 - 02:52
Thankfully, that's what I use now
#1.2 DsnBehind on 14 May 2004 - 03:09
QUOTE (#1.0)
Buy a hardware router/firewall instead.

Or a software one that actually works, instead of that Symantec crap.

I use Norton AntiVirus 2004. It works fine and doesn't slow my system down. Symantec's firewall line, however, is s**t.
#1.3 NeoSoft on 14 May 2004 - 03:22
But yet, Symantec owns Norton
#1.4 brew crew on 14 May 2004 - 19:49
...and Symnatec AntiVirus is better then Norton Antivirus
#2 nonsence on 14 May 2004 - 05:01
the symantec firewall is decent for corporate users. i liked it in that regards. also the enterprise firewall is nice with loads of options. and corporate anti virus client and the symantec system center is great. but i wish they had an option to password protect clients, maybe they do and i don't know about it lol. also the client firewall breaks internet explorer in regards to the image refferal or whatever it patches. they should include an option to turn it off instead of just give users an allow or deny list to work with. i uninstalled it and went with sygate personal firewall pro instead.
well that's all i got
(1 reply) #3 Zatoichi on 14 May 2004 - 05:36
Symantec is for sheeple.

Been total crap for years!
#3.1 nookadum on 14 May 2004 - 08:35
You're talking about the Norton line that Symantec makes. The Corporate/Client editions are the sweet cakes of Symantec.

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