Friday, February 11, 2005

Big Symantec "Oops"

On February 8th 2005, Symantec released a "Security Response" to the vulnerabilities in a great many of their products recently discovered by ISS X-Force. If you run any Symantec software, it would be well worth your time reading the information on http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.02.08.html.

Symantec, being the responsible corporate citizens they are, then released their Enterprise Administration February Newsletter on 10 February in which they claim that the "
Latest Windows Patches Underscore Need for Effective Patch Management", yet they totally fail to mention that the recent 13 patches released by Microsoft pale into near-insignificance when compared to the 30 products that this cross-platform bug affects in Symantec's own products.

Symantec, in this Newsletter, then claims that "
Symantec Solutions Named Best of the Best By Microsoft IT Pros". That says a lot about those IT Pros, doesn't it?

And I wonder why we don't use Symantec security products, preferring NOD32, which just happened to reach 7 years of Virus Bulletin 100% awards.

Regards,
The Outspoken Wookie

Apple OSX Update

Apple has today released OS X Panther 10.3.8 - an update that provides a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements mainly for third party (non-Apple) products. Major improvements include updated OpenGL drivers for ATI and nVidia graphics cards and better filesharing for mixed Mac + PC environments.

The 27-odd megabyte update can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxupdate1038.html and a partial list of updates can be viewed at http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n300569.

Regards,

The Outspoken Wookie