Symantec Screwup Is 'Worse Than Any Virus'
A recent update from Symantec Security Response incorrectly tagged a company's program as a virus and cut off the Internet access of its customers. Needless to say the company and its customers weren't happy.
A recent update from Symantec Security Response incorrectly tagged a company's program as a virus and cut off the Internet access of its customers. Needless to say the company and its customers weren't happy.
Symantec on Monday released a virus definition update that incorrectly identified Solid Oak's CyberSitter filtering program as a virus. Depending on the version of Symantec's Norton Antivirus product that Solid Oak customers were running, CyberSitter files were either deleted or banned from use by Norton, according to Solid Oak.
