A security researcher has discovered a "bug" in Symantec antivirus software, which affects "the core Symantec Antivirus Engine used in most Symantec and Norton branded Antivirus products." I say "bug" ...

Whoever thought loading an anti-virus engine into the Windows kernel was a good idea should finally have proof that they were completely and utterly wrong. That proof has arrived from Tavis Ormandy of ...

Critical security vulnerabilities have been found within Symantec and Norton products are "as bad as they get," according to security researchers. On Tuesday, Google's bug-hunting Project Zero team ...

I've been using anti-virus, anti-spyware and other security software for almost two decades but far too often, I have wondered whether the cure was worse than the disease. Symantec is a case in point.

When you download antivirus software, you expect it to protect your computer, not threaten it. And yet for all the good that Symantec/Norton's security programs do, it turns out they may be able to do ...

Products from Symantec that are supposed to protect users have made them much more open to attack, according to Google. Researcher Tavis Ormandy has spotted numerous vulnerabilities in 25 Norton and ...

Norton Internet Security and Symantec Endpoint Protection are both security software suites made by the same company, Symantec, but aimed at different audiences. Many of the security features are very ...

Last week, Symantec teamed with Dell to try to help midsize businesses get control of their e-mail systems. The Dell alliance follows the previous week's announcement that Symantec and Juniper ...

Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition -- also a component of the vendor's Antivirus Enterprise Suite -- has been breaking applications, bogging down PC performance and slowing systems to a crawl, some ...

Norton AntiVirus (NAV) 2004 debuts with a promising pedigree. Previous versions have consistently led the antivirus pack in security innovations, being the first, for example, to scan ...

The antivirus engine used in multiple Symantec products has an easy-to-exploit vulnerability that could allow hackers to easily compromise computers. The flaw was fixed by Symantec in Anti-Virus ...

Norton AntiVirus (NAV) 2004 debuts with a promising pedigree. Previous versions have consistently led the antivirus pack in security innovations, being the first, for example, to scan ...