Your Antivirus Can Be A Door For Hackers

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Your Antivirus Can Be A Door For Hackers

16 Dec 2008, 0523 hrs IST, Subhro Niyogi, TNN

KOLKATA: If you are using AVG, F-Secure (F-Prot), Sophos, ClamAV,
BitDefender, Avast or any such easy-to-download antivirus software for
your PC, it's time you sat up and took notice. An information security
company set up by IIT Kharagpur engineers has found hackers using these
antiviruses to break into the system. ...

www.ivizsecurity.com/Antivirus-page1.html

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3843100,prtpage-1.cms

This is new info? Or is this a repeat?

JR the postman
 
Postman Delivers said:
Your Antivirus Can Be A Door For Hackers

16 Dec 2008, 0523 hrs IST, Subhro Niyogi, TNN

KOLKATA: If you are using AVG, F-Secure (F-Prot), Sophos, ClamAV,
BitDefender, Avast or any such easy-to-download antivirus software for
your PC, it's time you sat up and took notice. An information security
company set up by IIT Kharagpur engineers has found hackers using these
antiviruses to break into the system. ...

www.ivizsecurity.com/Antivirus-page1.html

Print page
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3843100,prtpage-1.cms

This is new info? Or is this a repeat?

JR the postman
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"or any such easy-to-download antivirus software"

Good Grief! Could the article be anymore vague? How difficult would it
have been to list ALL the brands they tested that have this vulnerability.
And even better, list the brands they tested that did not.


Bob
 
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