Symantec flaw leaves opening for viruses

Anybody figure out yet...: How to read that not so well presented Symantec notice on what is affected?

It goes through a lot of rigamarole about what is and is not infected, mostly tells you that Norton Antivirus 2003 and 2005 are not vulnerable, that Norton Antivirus 2004 is and that you probably should run Liveupdate to fix it. Then it tells you that DEC2EXE was removed from most products. Even after running Liveupdate DEC2EXE.DLL still resides in Norton Antivirus Professional 2004. Are they expecting me to upgrade to NAV2005 to fix this?

There is no upgrade path to a NAV Professional 2005 available. The reason I went with NAV Professional is because it gave me two licenses out of the box, one for my desktop and one for the laptop. I take it that this was a onetime promotion?

Anyway, Livingston and Langa are pretty much thumbs down on NAV anymore along with Symantec Bloatware so it's probably getting the boot.; Posted by: boomslang_z Posted on: 02/10/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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