Security software: blind lead blind
Security software: blind lead blind. Commentary by Elias Levy
It’s incredible that in this day and age some of the most popular security products, products that are marketed as protecting you from the evils of computers, are so badly designed.
Case in point: The many antivirus products that failed to detect and stop the highly effective SirCam worm, even when updated with the latest signatures and when configured correctly.
Symantec’s Norton Antivirus for Gateways v2.x, Norton Antivirus POP email scanner, and TrendMicro’s InterScan VirusWall Standard and CVP editions version 3.51 build 1321 for Windows NT all failed to block SirCam. Why? Because all products “failed open,” i.e., when they encountered email messages they couldn’t handle properly, they sent them through by default.
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[via The Register]
