virus update warning

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This came from a friend of mine today who works at Hinds Instruments

(the company that mfg.'s night vision stuff for the military)

Pam

 

Critical vulnerabilities found in Symantec security products

 

 

 

Hello Everyone,

 

 

 

Symantec just recently release a couple of patches that fix critical

vulnerabilities in their security products (such as Norton Internet

Security and Symantec Firewall). If you are using any of these

products at home, please open the application (double-click on the

icon in the system tray -lower right side of the taskbar-) and

run " LiveUpdate " . Some analysts are predicting that a new

virus/worm will be out within the next 24 hours to take advantage of

these vulnerabilities.

 

 

 

As a general rule of thumb, everyone should be manually updating

their antivirus and security products on a regular basis (daily, or

every time you connect to the Internet...would be best), checking

for new patches and updates. Though most of the time these products

are set to automatically update, many of the program patches are not

automatically downloaded and installed during this process and do

require a user to manually initiate the update in order to receive

them.