Symantec fails to stop SirCam
Posted on 27/07/01 20:10 by Guest                             
Symantec fails to stop SirCam
Suprise to see symantec fails on this one.They have a big reputation to hold up..

The SirCam worm has revealed weaknesses in anti-virus protection relied on by many firms as a first line of defence against viral infection.
Norton Antivirus for Gateways fails to see email with attachments contaminated by the virus even if the correct settings have been applied and the latest versions of virus-identfying signature files have been downloaded.

When SirCam spreads itself by email the messages generated have an invalid or mangled MIME-header because of which Symantec's products don't recognise that an email has an attachment.The same bug in Symantec's software means Norton Antivirus also fails to detect SirCam with its POP email filter.


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Source: The Register

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By the111, Fri 27 Jul 2001 23:10
SirCam - I have been sent about 20 damn copies of the damn thing. Quite well made actually.
By Guest, Fri 27 Jul 2001 23:49
I have not been hit yet. and it is bad that more ISP's do not have virus protection built into thier email servers.
By Zyron, Sat 28 Jul 2001 11:35
Have know for years. Symantec doesn't make a good viral scanner, only a good Userinterface. The full implementation of heuristic scanning can be found at www.kaspersky.com
By Guest, Sat 28 Jul 2001 14:11
Agree with zyron. Kaspersky AVP is the way to go for good AV protection.
By Cr4z33, Sat 28 Jul 2001 15:42
I'm surprised about what they claim on this article. The network of my company is protected by NAV for Gateways and every infected email that had to go to my attention was perfectly cleaned by the AV scanner! :7

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