ZDNet’s Security blog has a story that should be a good warning to anyone running an older copy of Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition on their PCs.
There are some worm variants running around that are targetting this older Symantec product — attacking a known security hole and turning PCs into zombies to relay spam and other payloads.
Quoting ZDNet’s article:
The attacks target computers running older versions of Symantec Client Security and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition. Compromised systems are turned into remotely controlled zombies by the attacker and used to relay spam and other nefarious activities. Symantec’s Norton consumer software is not affected.
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