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The fox watching the henhouse?
eWeek: Symantec Caught in Norton 'Rootkit' Flap Symantec Corp. has fessed up to using a rootkit-type feature in Norton SystemWorks that could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place malicious files on computers.
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Symantec Caught in Norton 'Rootkit' Flap Symantec Corp. has fessed up to using a rootkit-type feature in Norton SystemWorks that could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place malicious files on computers.
News.com has the story too: Symantec provides hiding place for hackers. One issue that was never sufficiently vetted was how most of the security vendors gave a hall pass to the Sony BMG rootkit. Who makes these decisions?