Is not new that the services and tools antivirus infected with security gaps, but it is rare that these gaps be effective on all computer operating systems. Your antivirus company Symantec engine contains serious security flaw works on Windows, Mac and Linux systems.
Security researcher Tavis Ormandy of Google discovered a loophole in the main software engine used by Symantec antivirus including the famous Norton software applications. The problem lies precisely in how to handle anti-virus software from Symantec executive with compressed files. When exploiting the gap leads to display the well-known blue screen of death.
Ormandy said that once you send a compressed file to the victim or to persuade him by clicking on a link, it is enough to make a hole in the operating system and device control. In a regular Mac and Linux hackers can get the full powers of the root, but in the Windows system, the gap is sabotaging the kernel memory by dumping data or what is known as memory buffer overflow.
Despite the seriousness of the large gap and spread because it works on all systems, but Symantec has released a security update to address this gap in their programs can be downloaded and applied by updating any antivirus software used by the company.
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