Worm Hits PC Via Antivirus Program

[HardOCP News]

EEye Digital Security, based in Aliso Viejo says a new worm dubbed “Big Yellow” is spreading through a security hole in the corporate version of Symantec's antivirus software. A patch was released months ago but, unfortunately, it is up to customers to install it.

Symantec released a patch to address the flaw in May, but it's up to its corporate customers to install it. Officials at the Cupertino-based security software company said Friday it had so far received three reports of systems affected by the worm.

 

[lesman]

Scary....well I put Live OneCare on my PC a few months ago, so I shouldn't worry about it.

 

[swatbat]

Wait is this a patch that the liveupdate doesn't install? If so then yea I can see this being a big problem.

 

[Dew]

I use SAV9 corporate(U.S. Army, Licensed for all Active Duty personnel), I saw no mention of Big Yellow on Symantec's website. Anyone know they official name?

 

[swatbat]

I use SAV9 corporate(U.S. Army, Licensed for all Active Duty personnel), I saw no mention of Big Yellow on Symantec's website. Anyone know they official name?

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.05.25.html

 

[Dew]

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.05.25.html

Thanks!

Yay!
Unaffected Products:
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.0, 8.1, 9.0 all builds

 

[w1retap]

Thanks, patched mine.