Re: [Full-Disclosure] Nortons Liveupdate - problem?

From: Gregh (chows_at_ozemail.com.au)
Date: 01/20/04

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    To: "Joshua Levitsky" <jlevitsk@joshie.com>, <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:13:01 +1100

    Where else would Nortons be looking BUT their servers for updates? Sigh....

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    From: "Joshua Levitsky" <jlevitsk@joshie.com>
    To: <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
    Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:15 AM
    Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Nortons Liveupdate - problem?

    > And of course if you run Corporate Edition against an internal LiveUpdate
    > server then none of the below applies. Most likely doesn't apply even if
    you
    > use Symantec's servers. The scheduler is different in the CE version from
    > the retail version.
    >
    > --
    > Joshua Levitsky, MCSE, CISSP
    > System Engineer
    > Time Inc. Information Technology
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    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Gregh" <chows@ozemail.com.au>
    > To: "Disclosure Full" <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
    > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:33 PM
    > Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Nortons Liveupdate - problem?
    >
    >
    > >A lot of your customers may have your Nortons AV prog (I don't mean other
    > > Nortons products, just the anti virus scanner though this may apply to
    > > their
    > > other products, too) set to auto update when on Internet without
    > > interrupting the user which IS a good idea normally. However, a few
    weeks
    > > ago due to a stupid error on the part of a company Nortons uses, your AV
    > > prog couldn't find their update site for the day. It didn't last long
    and
    > > should have ended there.
    > >
    > > Unfortunately, I have become aware, while fixing problems for people who
    > > use
    > > Nortons, that their Nortons (2000, 2002 and 2004 versions) hadn't
    updated
    > > for the last two weeks. So, I manually MADE it update and it did so just
    > > fine. This isn't normal. Nortons usually auto updates fine and on each
    > > machine where I have noted this (5 so far, all Nortons, all the same
    drop
    > > off time), they have been without updates since that date and thus open
    to
    > > newer stuff. Bagle should start hitting hard today and if what I fear is
    > > correct, none of your Nortons users will be protected UNLESS you get
    them
    > > to
    > > open their Nortons and run your LiveUpdate manually. 5 out of 5 machines
    > > all
    > > stopped updating at the same period seems strange to me. There were 2 in
    > > one
    > > user group, 2 in another company and one friend who I do work for on his
    > > personal machine. These were 3 different sites in other words.
    > >
    > > So, do yourselves a favour. I may be wrong but if I am not wrong, your
    > > users
    > > are not protected. They MAY be protected automatically after manually
    > > updating but I am not even 100% sure of that right now. Run Liveupdate
    > > manually NOW and be sure!
    > >
    > > Greg.
    > >
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