[ISN] Antivirus tools 'pave way' for malware

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_infosecnews.org>
Date: Tue 01 Jul 2008 - 01:41:24 CDT
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2220316/security-platforms-malware

By Clement James
vnunet.com
30 June 2008

German IT consultancy N.runs has warned that antivirus products can 
actually open the door to attackers, enabling them to penetrate company 
networks and load destructive code.

Security specialists from the company claim to have discovered 
approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products during the past 
few months.

N.runs said that every virus scanner currently on the market has several 
highly critical flaws which could pave the way for denial-of-service 
attacks and enable the infiltration of destructive code past the 
security solution into the network.

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Received on Tue Jul 1 01:41:24 2008
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