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General Category => Huh? => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on June 29, 2016, 1331 UTC
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Much of the product line from security firm Symantec contains a raft of vulnerabilities that expose millions of consumers, small businesses, and large organizations to self-replicating attacks that take complete control of their computers, a researcher warned Tuesday.
"These vulnerabilities are as bad as it gets," Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google's Project Zero, wrote in a blog post. "They don’t require any user interaction, they affect the default configuration, and the software runs at the highest privilege levels possible. In certain cases on Windows, vulnerable code is even loaded into the kernel, resulting in remote kernel memory corruption."
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/25-symantec-products-open-to-wormable-attack-by-unopened-e-mail-or-links/ (http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/25-symantec-products-open-to-wormable-attack-by-unopened-e-mail-or-links/)
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Nice.
Anyway, I run M$ essentials on teh boxes that can run it, avira or clamwin on those that can't.
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That's why people should play it safe and only hang out on porn sites. I've never heard of anyone say that they got the blue screen of death from browsing porn. Accidentally clicking on it, yes, but I think even that's an urban legend as no one has ever admitted to looking at porn in the history of the internet. Sometimes I wonder if internet porn actually exists at all?
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Yet another reason why people are starting to bail on microshaft.
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I use Clam-Linux...
I've used Linux since I bailed on Windoze 3.1...
Guess that shows my age ehhh???
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Funny thing is my first PC was running 3.11. When they killed XP, I jumped ship as well.
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Norton had that great sewer job, then he started listening to Ralph about a part-time security job and his life went to Hell.
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m$ sucks. And blows.