From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Wow, that's kewl. I wonder how much each other's shares Sony and Norton own...


Antti Kurenniemi
(...or maybe their top execs are related?)

"Geo"  wrote in message news:43c63802{at}w3.nls.net...
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1910077,00.asp
>
> 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 anti-virus vendor acknowledged that it was deliberately hiding a
> directory from Windows APIs as a feature to stop customers from
> accidentally
> deleting files but, prompted by warnings from security experts, the
> company
> shipped a SystemWorks update to eliminate the risk.
>
>

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