That's an interesting blog entry though. Lots of links. It'll probably turn out to be nothing too crazy, but I'm gonna keep an eye on it, nonetheless. Thanks for posting.
I remeber trying the 2004 version of Norton...and I also rember thinking "Why?"
Norton 2009 is really good...probally the best active scan anti-virus out
My work place uses it and I have been highly impressed, but they also paid a lot for it.
To my knoledge, no one on any of the 15,000+ computers had any pop ups realted to this. So if this is on the level it is my guess it is some thing only sinlge license users have to worry about. Think it might be some thing to with product activation or to check for prirates using the software illeagally? I think I will check to see if the .exe is running my next work day.
LOL...I love it when screen shots include a utorrent icon in the tray...
Buffer over flow is when data overflows the normal buffer and overwrites other memory locations, thus allowing to execute other code.
This exploit so far looks like a "beam home and get more nefarious stuff" attack.
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I remeber trying the 2004 version of Norton...and I also rember thinking "Why?"
Norton 2009 is really good...probally the best active scan anti-virus out
My work place uses it and I have been highly impressed, but they also paid a lot for it.
To my knoledge, no one on any of the 15,000+ computers had any pop ups realted to this. So if this is on the level it is my guess it is some thing only sinlge license users have to worry about. Think it might be some thing to with product activation or to check for prirates using the software illeagally?
I wish my work place was like yours!
My bet would be that PIFTS beams home from something; and this attack will redirect the liveupdate to go from Norton's update server, to some other server, and then commit various nasties on Norton/your computer.
FYI it is ~$60 for 1 year and 5 computer subscription, so not bad at all.
Originally Posted by Bartmasta
i think malware bytes antimalware is better
one care live is the best though although it costs
Yeah, but in a retail and business environment, people seem to recognise the AVG brand. We would have a hard time trying to sell people "Malware Bytes - Anti Malware", even if it is a good product.
I've used Malwarebytes on a few computers recently, and it seems to have picked up things AVG and Ad-Aware didn't. Results will obviously vary from user to user and depend on the situation, but that has been my most recent experiences with those anti-spyware programs.
The amount of resources it uses is minimal, there is virtually no performance decrease when using it, and it picks up nearly everything. Im happy to use it on my sig rig.
Beat me to it. I'm using Norton Gaming Edition...it's light as a feather, less resources used than the free stuff (I used to use AVG).
I remeber trying the 2004 version of Norton...and I also rember thinking "Why?"
Norton 2009 is really good...probally the best active scan anti-virus out
My work place uses it and I have been highly impressed, but they also paid a lot for it.
To my knoledge, no one on any of the 15,000+ computers had any pop ups realted to this. So if this is on the level it is my guess it is some thing only sinlge license users have to worry about. Think it might be some thing to with product activation or to check for prirates using the software illeagally? I think I will check to see if the .exe is running my next work day.
LOL...I love it when screen shots include a utorrent icon in the tray...
LOL I love it how he might be downloading the latest version of (insert distro here) linux.
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