Re: [ISN] Symantec 'security scan' distributes rootkit
From: Lee Higdon (lthigdon_at_raytheon.com)
Date: 07/17/03
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:12:25 -0500
"Colonel Flagg" <colonel_flagg@NOSOUPFORJ00internetwarzone.org> wrote in
message news:MPG.197fbfb4fab4dd67989a7d@news.charter.net...
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31752.html
>
> By Thomas C Greene in Washington
> Posted: 15/07/2003
>
> "Symantec Security Check is a free web-based tool that enables users
> to test their computer's exposure to a wide range of on-line threats,"
> the press release begins. Unfortunately, Symantec Security Check has
> also been installing an on-line threat of its own in the form of a
> dangerous ActiveX control.
>
>
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> Colonel Flagg
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This is old news. Symantec has had a fix in place. I removed the threat on
my machines 8 July.
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