Security vulnerabilities in Symantec and Norton 'as bad as it gets' warns researcher

You don’t want to hear that the security product you are using to protect you has multiple critical vulnerabilities which put you at risk, but if you use Symantec/Norton then those holes are “as bad as it gets,” according to Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy.

The security flaws “don’t require any user interaction, they affect the default configuration, and the software runs at the highest privilege levels possible,” Ormandy added on Project Zero. “In certain cases on Windows, vulnerable code is even loaded into the kernel, resulting in remote kernel memory corruption.”

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