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Symantec Endpoint Protection

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News that is a bit worrisome and flying under the radar a bit:

http://bit.ly/8KTfPl

As I understand it:

1) Symantec has had 12 days to fix it and hasn’t.

2) Symantec went from multiple updates per day to a single update per day for 7 days (Jan 1-Jan 7).

I find this event worrisome. A single update per day for 7 days? I’m surprised malware writers weren’t able to exploit this situation.

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Serves fools right for choosing Symantec for AV

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Delayed Y2K bug.

Please Clarify

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While Norton (the home version) has at times taken its fair share of criticism, Symantec (the enterprise version) I have found is a solid product.

And please, don’t give me a line of crap about AVG and what not. This is a business and aside from free products not being free for a business, virtually none of them have the management functionality needed in a business environment.

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Personally, I use McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 with product options for all my AV (and other) needs.

Your Explanation was Just So Informative

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Ok, you use one product and I use another.

You referred to users of Symantec as fools without backing that up with any information.

Thanks for wasting my time reading your post. I was actually hoping to hear why you don’t like Symantec but I guess that isn’t about to happen.

How about this. I think users of McAfee are fools. LOL

It is no great secret that Symantec

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would have a problem with the 2010 date, hence the ‘fool’ part for using it come 2010.

McAfee has no such issues.

OK, I’m done here.

Delayed Y2k bug

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Symantec has a problem with definitions dated as 1/1/2010 or grater for SEP.
The client will detect the definition as an outdated one, currently they are working for a solution for that.

But Symantec is not the only company has a problem with 2010 year, several company has reported the same problem with year 2010 as a delayed Y2K bug, like SAP and some ATM machines

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