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Thursday, January 12, 2006

 

Symantec caught embedding rootkits

`Mike @ TechDirt writes “Norton AntiVirus maker Symantec admits that it planted a rootkit in SystemWorks to… pay close attention now… keep customers from accidentally deleting files. Really.

After sysinternals chief Mark Russinovich blew the whistle, Symantec decided that maybe, just maybe, the travesty wasn’t its best idea ever.’




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