SYMANTEC FIRST TO PROVIDE ANTI-VIRUS AND ENTERPRISE SECURITY MANAGEMENT PROTECTION AGAINST RECENTLY ISSUED FRAUDULENT VERISIGN DIGITAL CERTIFICATES.Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC SYMC Symantec Corporation (stock symbol) ) recently announced that its award-winning vulnerability assessment A Department of Defense, command, or unit-level evaluation (assessment) to determine the vulnerability of a terrorist attack against an installation, unit, exercise, port, ship, residence, facility, or other site. and anti-virus solutions, Enterprise Security Manager and Norton AntiVirus A popular antivirus program from Symantec. The AntiVirus function is available as a separate product for home and business users or as part of various packages that contain other utilities such as Norton SystemWorks and Norton Internet Security. See Norton Utilities. respectively, detect and protect against two recently issued fraudulent VeriSign, Inc. digital certificates. VeriSign discovered through its routine fraud screening procedures that it issued two digital certificates to an individual who fraudulently claimed to be a representative of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, . These certificates can be used to digitally sign a program containing malicious code of any type under the name of Microsoft Corporation. Digital certificates are used to prove that the data originated from the authorized owner and that it has not been modified. "This is a tremendous example of how two powerful Symantec products - Norton AntiVirus and Enterprise Security Manager - can work together to provide a comprehensive solution to a real-time threat," said Rob Clyde, vice president and chief technologist for Symantec's Enterprise Solutions Division. "Our customers can be assured that Symantec provides comprehensive Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. solutions." "We were pleased to see Symantec work quickly to assemble an antidote to avert this potential vulnerability," said Mahi de Silva, vice president and general manager of Applied Trust Services at VeriSign, Inc. "Working together we were able to diminish the opportunity for an attacker to distribute malicious code." Symantec provides complete security solutions (reactive and real-time) to defend against this latest threat. Enterprise Security Manager provides vulnerability assessment capabilities on machines that have executed one or both of the fraudulent certificates. The Symantec AntiVirus Research Center (SARC SARC School Accountability Report Card SARC Student Academic Resource Center SARC Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (US DoD) SARC Stock Assessment Review Committee (fisheries) ) has developed definitions for Symantec's anti-virus solutions to detect and prevent the download of these certificates as well as to scan the existing file system providing real-time protection Real-time protection, on-access scanning, background guard, resident shield, autoprotect, and other synonyms refer to the automatic protection provided by most antivirus, antispyware, and other antimalware programs, which is arguably their most important . This prevents customers from executing code signed with the fraudulent certificates, even if the code is sent via e-mail. |
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