Symantec Endpoint Security issues

Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m not a fan of Anti-Virus companies, especially when they use FUD to sell their products. What’s even worse is when a security application, which is supposed to protect you from security issues, has security issues itself.

Symantec’s workstation anti-virus application, SEP, is apparently riddled with them according to Secunia. Included in the list are cross-site scripting and request forgery issues. Time to look at something else?


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2 responses to “Symantec Endpoint Security issues”

  1. Hello,

    You will be happy to hear that Symantec engineers fixed the issues in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0.7000 RU7.

    http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2011&suid=20110810_00

    Regards,
    Thomas (Symantec)

  2. The vulnerability is addressed in RU7. As with any software, you should always be running the latest version.