Re: [fw-wiz] Opinions on the security of antivirus software

From: H. Morrow Long (morrow.long@yale.edu)
Date: 07/05/02 

From: "H. Morrow Long" <morrow.long@yale.edu>
To: Mikael Olsson <mikael.olsson@clavister.com>
Date: Fri Jul  5 12:36:02 2002

Symantec's (e.g. Norton Anti-Virus) LiveUpdate uses a PKI and
public key certificates to verify digitally 'signed' updates
as well as a/v signatures (e.g. there is a 'root CA' cert in
your local Symantec LiveUpdate installation with which it
verifies the update and signature files downloaded).

- H. Morrow Long
  University Information Security Officer

Mikael Olsson wrote:
> I was wondering what opinions you people have on different antivirus
> packages, security-wise.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: ATTN: Users of NAV, NSW or NIS 2004
    ... Many users let LiveUpdate run automatically. ... the past where automatic LiveUpdate did not download all available updates. ... The following is a portion of the Symantec ... The DEC2EXE engine is no longer required to parse ...
    (microsoft.public.security)
  • Re: SP2 Norton Issues?
    ... > The files below could not be updated by LiveUpdate: ... If you are doing the first round of updates after an install of NAV than ... this situation/error after clean installs of NAV and the second round or ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Last Norton Liveupdate Broke Firewall!
    ... > after the last Liveupdate (which consisted of a large Norton Firewall ... reran LiveUpdate until it longer offers more updates? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)
  • Re: win32x.exe
    ... >>> Dan - You need Norton support, ... LiveUpdate might be attempting to get updates. ... product with its own updates separate from the antivirus ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)