I thought this was an interesting read:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=54800003
Just one more reason why I use avast! ;D
Yeah, the free avast version has no script blocking, so I guess we are safe ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Well,
not that I like Norton, but:
- you need to RUN the script first
→ if you click on dubious software/Code (or have your browser open it automatically for you) ;D
Then there’ll always be some piece of malware that gets by your (single or multilayered) “protection” as in Scanners/Tools
My two and so far sufficient “layers”: Configure & Think 
Do you really think that avast is protected? 
I think you can disable - with administrator rights - ashserv.exe as easy as NAV :-\ 
Well of course…
any malicious user or (in)decent malware activated/running under admin can kick your protection, that’s the meaning of admin = root = superuser, isn’t it ?
The point with this symantec-bug (afaiui) is that NAV’s script-protection should detect-as-malicious & block this (WMI…?-)Script after it’s downloaded/clicked, but before it’s activated, which seemingly NAV doesn’t achieve
It boils down to: a Scanner/Tool can’t protect you (or itself), if it doesn’t detect a specific malware
And this is not going to change anywhen in the foreseeable future…
So: → don’t click/download/activate (potential) malware
;D ;D
Another solution (please correct me if im wrong)
Would be not to log in as admin
–lee
quite correct, lee…
But there’s a dilemma
- most XP-Users surf as admin
- and some software won’t really run properly under user/restricted rights (maybe one shouldn’t use this soft then)
This is the reward for the ones who promisse a lot and do not carry out what have promissed
This is the reward for users that trust that much in the marketing of the big companines