Symantec may Compensate Users Hit by Buggy Update
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Software vendor mulls how to compensate Chinese comupter users effected by a buggy antivirus update last week.
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Earliest adopters of updated program should download again to ensure full security.
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Symantec, seeking to make amends for the glitch that knocked out thousands of computers across China last month, is offering affected users free backup software and an extension on their subscription to their anti-virus software. Some customers are not mollified.
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Chinese users whose PCs were crippled by a faulty virus update are suing Symantec for damages.
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OS security fix is being rolled out to users who have enabled Automatic Updates.
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McAfee says it's sorry for glitches in new security software.
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Symantec has released firmware fixes for a string of critical security holes in its firewall/VPN and Gateway Security products which could be exploited to cause a denial of service, identify
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Symantec is taking heat in the mainstream Chinese media over its compensation offer for a destructive software update.
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Ilia Alshanetsky posts today about the proposed "Month of PHP bugs" that Stefan Esser is proposing:   It would be interesting to see what issues he discovers, hopefully most of them have already been reported to the PHP Security Team, in which case the upcoming 5.2.1 release will provide a resolution path for affected users.   Hopefully, as Ilia states, the bugs will not turn out to be zero-day vulnerabilities and will instead be smaller issues. Either way, a bug-fix patch will probably soon follow.   Either way, I have to look at this as a free security audit of PHP by someone with a clue about security and ultimately, in the long run it will only make PHP better, even if March is going to be rather busy.
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Symantec is still working to resolve business-process issues that have weighed down its rollout of a new ERP system, delaying software licensing for some users and hurting its financial results.
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Symantec on Monday said that its makegood for Chinese users affected by a bad software update was well received. However, the company offered no numbers to back up their claim that the offer, which ended Sunday, was a success.
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False early expiry flap Symantec has apologised after a glitch with its software resulted in "small group" of its customers been falsely advised that their software subscriptions had expired early.â¦
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Vendors ship updated packages to fix the problem that could allow an attacker to take control of a system.
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Con-pensation Chinese PC users whose machines were crippled by a dodgy software update from Symantec have two weeks to apply for compensation. The company has announced that the 50,000 users affected by the error are entitled to some free Norton anti-virus licenses.â¦
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InfoWorld - Symantec declared its&#160;compensation offer&#160;for Chinese users who saw their computers damaged by a bad software update a success Sunday, but declined to say how many users had accepted the deal.
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InfoWorld - More than a month after Symantec Corp. knocked out 50,000 Chinese PCs with a bad software update, the company is ready to offer compensation. But Chinese users eligible for the offer have to act fast; it&#39;s only good for a couple of weeks.
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Unpalatable A Chinese user's attempt to sue Symantec for damage caused as a result of dodgy anti-virus signature update files is unlikely to succeed, according to security experts.â¦