Symantec Corp.’s leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world’s largest corporations and U.S. government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs, researchers said Thursday.

Well it appears that HOME users should be okay…unless your company gave you a copy of their enterprise edition to put onto your home computer…then you might just be in a little bit of trouble…seems that the guys at eEye Digital Security discovered the backdoor and have notified Symantec about the “flaw”…Just another reason to not use Norton…Welcome to CrzyLand-Nic

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