Filed under: Security, Windows, Symantec
Symantec falls into its own rootkit debacle
by Jordan Running Jan 12th 2006 at 12:45PM
Sony BMG isn't the only company using rootkits to hide files on its
customers computers. eWeek is reporting that Symantec's
Norton SystemWorks software installs a rootkit that "could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to
place malicious files on computers." Symantec claims that the rootkit hides files from Windows in order to
"stop customers from accidentally deleting files," but have moved quickly to avoid a Sony-like fiasco by
ironically issuing a security
alert for its own product ("Risk Impact: Low") and issuing a LIveUpdate that makes the hidden files
visible.
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