Symantec plugs A/V hole in record time

Symantec confirmed the stack overflow hole found last week in its enterprise anti-virus products. They posted an advisory notice along with intrusion-detection updates to find and stop any exploits. Actual patches don't yet seem to be available; perhaps they will follow in a few months as researchers predicted last week. However, Symantec deserves credit for jumping on this problem before it became a widespread IT (or PR) nightmare.

For more on the flaw:
- read this eWeek article

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