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Symantec Scrambles to Fix Firewall Flaws (for Norton users)
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| May 13, 2004
| Ryan Naraine
Posted on 05/13/2004 4:03:11 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn
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Apprently Norton's firewall isn't safe enough. Best to check for updates.
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posted on
05/13/2004 4:03:13 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
To: JoJo Gunn
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posted on
05/13/2004 4:14:41 PM PDT
by
Brad’s Gramma
(Have y'all tried the new Bloggers & Personal section?)
To: JoJo Gunn
I've just looked over the site after posting this story, and there's not a mention of it anywhere on Symantec's site. Neither is it in the list when you manually bring up "Live Update".
http://www.symantec.com/index.htm
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posted on
05/13/2004 4:15:16 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Intellectuals exist only if you believe they do. ©)
To: JoJo Gunn
It never ceases to amaze me how, 34 years after the C programming language was invented, buffer overruns still plague software, get past QA and are exploited by haxors.
Find a surefire way to catch buffer overruns in code, and you will have found the programmer's Holy Grail.
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posted on
05/13/2004 4:17:12 PM PDT
by
Imal
(Revenge is a dish best served often.)
To: JoJo Gunn
no its time for laws to put the little kids that are doing this in the jug for a long long time. and monies must be there to back up the laws.
one more thing the little kids shall not have access to computers or data for 5 years.
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posted on
05/13/2004 4:26:56 PM PDT
by
camas
To: JoJo Gunn
Yikes. A certain large manufacturer that I used to work for required Symantek firewall software on all of their laptops.
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posted on
05/13/2004 4:28:17 PM PDT
by
TechJunkYard
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: JoJo Gunn
Go Zonealarm! Free and it kicks @!#!@!.
To: TechJunkYard
The problem with Live Update they are sometimes broken down into more manageable pieces, to be downloaded over time. I suppose this is for dialup users.
For virus definitions, I go directly to this page and download the latest.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/download/pages/US-N95.html
I just set up a new Dell at work yesterday, and that 2004 Internet Security product came with it. It took three LIVE UPDATES and three reboots to get all the data current.
To: Spacemonkey1023
To: BurbankKarl
Yeah, I've noticed how it's in pieces whenever I do a reinstall. Part of it I can understand, since some things have to have a restart before the next can be accepted. And at the last there's the part for where you can make emergency floppies.
(Norton's had a lot of angry people, I gather, since the first of this year, with connection boxes popping up all the dang time after a certain update(s) they issued).
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posted on
05/13/2004 4:49:01 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Intellectuals exist only if you believe they do. ©)
To: Imal
Ya, I don't understand it either.
I write a lot code in assembly where buffer overflows only result in a loss of buffer data not some nasty external data/code execution launcher.
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posted on
05/13/2004 4:49:26 PM PDT
by
DB
(©)
To: nutmeg
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posted on
05/13/2004 4:50:31 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
(Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F’in al-Qerry)
To: JoJo Gunn
I use Norton regularly, and have been getting a "refusal to connect" from Symantic since noon today. Are others having the same problem? Please advise me on what others know.
Urgent!
John / Billybob
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posted on
05/13/2004 4:54:23 PM PDT
by
Congressman Billybob
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To: Imal
Isn't that what Gates is trying to do, yet sew it up where you'll have to have a former fry cook give you authorization to play a .wav file? (I admit I'm not savvy about computer languages. Am I comparing apples and oranges with buffer overruns and wariness over DRM, etc? I don't want to come across as an MS basher. I'm just a layman who doesn't know if he'll be any safer, depending on just who sews up the code).
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posted on
05/13/2004 4:55:53 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Intellectuals exist only if you believe they do. ©)
To: Spacemonkey1023
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posted on
05/13/2004 4:59:08 PM PDT
by
First_Salute
(May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
To: JoJo Gunn
Norton's firewall is like the Borg. It takes over your computer.
ZoneAlarm is your friend.
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posted on
05/13/2004 5:00:05 PM PDT
by
TSgt
(What have you done for your country today?)
To: JoJo Gunn
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posted on
05/13/2004 5:01:34 PM PDT
by
ODC-GIRL
(Proudly serving our Nation's Homeland Defense)
To: Congressman Billybob
I honestly don't know.
Where I got this story was from a computer forum I like to hang around, and as you'll see it's one of the headlines at the top. It was just posted, oh maybe 15 minutes before I came here to post it. I posted something about it there at VDr first, but so far nobody has commented on it.
I myself am connecting okay, and usually manually click the update box in the tray and check for updates. Don't use auto-update since it slows things down right in the middle of something else, but I check every day. I just checked again and there's nothing yet, no new AV updates for today, nothing.
I almost hated to post, seeing as how the story's so hot there's no suggestions to anyone here. sigh Didn't NOT want to either, though.
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=810648#post810648
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posted on
05/13/2004 5:04:52 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Intellectuals exist only if you believe they do. ©)
To: MikeWUSAF
I got this little HP back in July of 2001. You know how they say that the computer makers bundle everything just right? McAfee gave me fits galore, so I switched to Norton, and until the first of the year I absolutely never had a problem with them. It's been as rock stable as McAfee was like a DU'er.
Now myself and a friend, who both use NIS 2002 (I actually converted him) have the connection box problem, though he a heck of a lot worse than me). There's some rumors floating about that Norton has been trying to find people with bootlegged discs. I have no idea if it's true, if it's any part of the problem, but....
I'd downloaded ZoneAlarm a couple of years back and saved it somewhere, packrat that I am. Maybe it's time I went searching for that CD.
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posted on
05/13/2004 5:11:52 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Intellectuals exist only if you believe they do. ©)
To: JoJo Gunn
ZoneAlarm has been updated several times since then. You'd do better to download it again from their website. Current version is 4.5.594, and they have been beta-testing version 5.
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posted on
05/13/2004 5:15:49 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
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