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Symantec Corp. has fessed up to using a rootkit-type feature in Norton SystemWorks that could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place malicious files on computers.
The Eweek article is here
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1910077,00.asp
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Posted 12 January 2006 - 04:05 PM
Just another reason to avoid Norton System Works, a hodge-podge of clunking applications. Just my opinion.
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Posted 18 January 2006 - 01:48 PM
Mark Russinovich on Rootkits in Commercial Software
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