Norton Anti-virus has posted a fix for a vulnerability in their Norton Anti virus Corporate Edition and Client Security products that could have allowed remote users to launch worm attacks. The issues of remote code execution have been resolved now, thanks to the fix which means that the products are no longer vulnerable to a stack overflow. The flaw, which doesn’t require any user interaction in order to be exploited, was pretty serious as it impacted enterprise-level customers. A worm crafted to take advantage of the exploit could have had a disastrous impact, particularly on large companies that use the affected anti-virus software. The flaw was discovered by digital security firm the eEye, who rated the flaw as highly severe.

“As a trend, we are seeing the complexity of anti-virus software increase and as a result the existence of vulnerabilities is pretty prevalent at the application layer,” the eEye spokesperson said. “Anytime you have complex software there are going to be vulnerabilities.”

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I found interesting topic on one of the antivirus forum, MacFixIt reader Michele de Simone recently reported the presence of a mysterious file occupying a large amount of disk space after using of Norton AntiVirus.

Michele writes:
“There is an invisible file on the invisible folder private with the name ’spacesuckingfile.xxxxxx’, the file that i found was of 175.3 GB with data of creation the 23 of January and it was securely an incremental filesize. I couldn’t say if it was a program or a file that a program create. I found it with ‘Where is my disk space?’ and i removed it.”
The file “spacesuckingfile.xxxxxx” is actually spawned by some versions of Norton AntiVirus after it has completed a virus scan. It is a temporary file that Norton AntiVirus creates when scanning archives on your computer to help determine the amount of free space available on the disk before it begins unstuffing and scanning archives. The file contains no actual data and may be deleted. Normally, Norton AntiVirus deletes this file when antivirus scanning the archives is complete, though it may not be deleted automatically.

Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 9.0.1 fixes this problem. Symantec says “Please run LiveUpdate to update to the latest version of your Symantec Macintosh software.”

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