Norton Internet Security 4.03 patch released

From: Ben Hallert (bhallert@symantec.com)
Date: 02/22/02 

From: Ben Hallert <bhallert@symantec.com>
Date: 22 Feb 2002 22:51:03 GMT

Hi guys,

We've just released a new LiveUpdate patch (4.03) for Norton Internet
Security (and Norton Personal Firewall) 4.0. Here is a list of changes
made:

1. Fixed a bug with a Japanese finance program.
2. Fixed a script error in a rule creation screen.
3. Fixed some localization bugs.
4. Fixed a problem where a NIS protected system would show as a security
risk while being scanned by our SSC security scanner page.
5. We now lock down our log files when NIS is running to prevent a
malicious app from theoretically overwriting entries to cover tracks.
6. Made some changes to our Ad Blocking so that a handful of domains that
contained keywords that happened to match advertisements wouldn't be
unfairly blocked.
7. Fixed a problem where one of our components would falsely show 100% CPU
utilization in the task manager.
8. Fixed a handful of HTTP parsing bugs.

As an unintended consequence of #5 is that we now lock out some of the
excellent 3rd party log viewers and analyzers. This was not on purpose, so
we're looking to see what we can do to fix this quickly.

Once again, if you have Norton Internet Security or Norton Personal
Firewall 4.0 (or 4.01 or 4.02), run LiveUpdate to get this patch.

Regards, 

-- 
Ben Hallert
Consumer Products Division - Internet Security
Symantec

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