Symantec Admits Its Networks Were Hacked in 2006 113
Orome1 writes "After having first claimed that the source code leaked by Indian hacking group Dharmaraja was not stolen through a breach of its networks, but possibly by compromising the networks of a third-party entity, Symantec backpedalled and announced that the code seems to have exfiltrated during a 2006 breach of its systems. Symantec spokesman Cris Paden has confirmed that unknown hackers have managed to get their hands on the source code to the following Symantec solutions: Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, Norton Internet Security, Norton Utilities, Norton GoBack and pcAnywhere."
Re:Thanks a bunch (Score:5, Informative)
Anybody that still uses Symantec software more or less deserves what they get. I can't imagine that the enterprise version is any less crappy than the home version is.
Re:Thanks a bunch (Score:5, Informative)
Aaaand, you believe that's not one of the hundreds of variants, or a new variant that also installs other malware, because? I hope you're not the kind of person that "removes" viruses for a fee, and after my Aunt has paid you, she comes home and looks through her image library and gets re-infected...
Just to be perfectly clear: WIPE the drive, FLASH the mobo BIOS, REINSTALL the OS. There is NO SUCH THING as removing malware. Unless you watched that sucker get installed while stepping through it with a debugger, you don't really know WTF is going on or what else it has done.
Perhaps you're just playing with the viruses, cultivating them and studying them before they're released into the wild; Either this, or you don't realize that you are...