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High-severity bugs in 25 Symantec/Norton products imperils millions - expert comments
June 2016 by Symantec/Norton
Researchers are warning that much of the product line from security firm Symantec contains multiple vulnerabilities that expose millions of consumers, as well as small and large businesses, to self-replicating attacks that take complete control of their computers. Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google’s Project Zero, has warned that the vulnerability is unusually easy to exploit, and allows the exploits to spread virtually from machine to machine over a targeted network.
"In the current age of computer security, end-point protection is becoming nothing more than an arms race. Anti-virus and Anti-malware products are becoming less-and-less effective as hackers consistently create code that evades their protection capabilities. When you think of end-point protection, think of the game “Whack-a-Mole”. As soon as you whack one of them, another one pops right back up.
Although Anti-virus and Anti-malware products can be made to do a better job, it’s often at the cost of computer performance. People want better protection, but they do not want their computing devices to slow down because of it."
