Has anyone seen the latest from E-WEEK?
Its about online scanners.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1563092,00.asp
“Online scanners from Symantec, McAfee and Panda all contain buffer overflows. One researcher claims an attacker could execute arbitrary code, another just that they could crash the browser. Panda reports their software has been fixed and Symantec denies there is a problem at all.”
I hope avast has wrote “good"code for us!!!
Overflows seem to be one of the biggest security problems out there. All we (consumers) can do is pray that the programmers take their time and do it right the first time!!!
Like my carpenter friend says"measure twice,cut once”
-max
even housecall had a flaw like this once. trend fixed it promptly though.
P.S. Max i never got a reply to the I.M. I sent you
hard drive died the other day - had to get new one (pulled one out of an old 486- a western digital 800mb lol )and I hadn’t backed-up my address book or messages so I lost e-mail addy for you-send me it again
-max
it was not on your hard drive. go to the top of this page and it should say Hey Max you have 1 new message. Click on it and it will take you to the inbox