Symantec admitted that a recent update to their antivirus software have caused some PCs to crash. Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 antivirus software for businesses updated earlier this week and caused Windows XP-based PCs to repeatedly crash. The company revealed this on their website as they try to update their customers who have experienced the problem. [...] Read more → 
Would you believe if an anti-virus company claimed that their anti-virus will actually increase or boost up the speed of your computer? Security provider Symantec believes that their Norton security software for Windows 8 actually speeds up Microsoft’s new operating system. Symantec’s head of development Collin Davis boasted that the performance of Symantec’s new code [...] Read more → 
The prevalent malware attacks have caught the world off guard. The high rate of infected computers has been on the rise even if security firms have been trying to be on top of the situation. The threat is still there and the numbers can still climb. According to Symantec in its Internet Security Threat Report’s [...] Read more → 
Security firm Symantec found out that the company that was most hurt by the recent flashback variant attacks that exploited a java software flaw and dealt damage to about 600,000 Macs around the world was search giant Google, Inc. The firm’s researchers found out that a huge sum of money was stolen from the sites [...] Read more → Anti-virus provider Symantec unveiled a report indicating that at least 10,000 domain names were compromised by a redirect script that targets the New Year celebrations. According to the company, the websites was found to have a redirect script written in PHP that has a ‘New Year’ written on its file name. Paul Wood, senior intelligence [...] Read more → Symantec has confirmed that there is indeed a zero-day “Xmas exploit” that target both Adobe Acrobat and Reader. The zero-day vulnerability is said to be triggered by malicious PDF attachments which unknowingly being opened by recipients. “The PDF files we discovered arrives as an email attachment. The attack attempts to lure email recipients into opening [...] Read more → 