Google’s Project Zero team, a group of security analysts tasked with hunting for computer bugs, discovered a number of critical vulnerabilities in Symantec and Norton security products, reports Fortune.
The loopholes allow hackers to comprise your computer simply by sending malicious self-replicating code through unopened emails or un-clicked links.
These flaws affect all 17 of Symantec’s currently available products as well as all 8 of Norton’s and are “as bad as it gets”, says Project Zero member Tavis Ormandy.
An attacker could easily compromise an entire enterprise fleet using a vulnerability like this.
Network administrators should keep scenarios like this in mind when deciding to deploy Antivirus, it’s a significant tradeoff in terms of increasing attack surface.
Symantec has acknowledged the problem and stated that it plans to fix the vulnerabilities in future updates.
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