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Symantec Norton AntiVirus Unprivileged Auto-Protection Deactivation
Secunia Advisory: SA12863
Release Date: 2004-10-18
Last Update: 2004-11-11
Popularity: 16,777 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Unknown
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004 Professional

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Description:
Daniel Milisic has reported an issue in Symantec Norton AntiVirus / Norton Internet Security.

Certain visual basic scripts can disable parts of the programs UI. This causes the program to wrongly report that the auto-protection feature has been disabled and stops notifying the user about any malicious activity.

This is considered to be inappropriate behaviour and not a vulnerability.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Daniel Milisic

Changelog:
2004-10-20: Updated advisory to reflect new information.
2004-11-11: Added link to Symantec response.

Original Advisory:
Symantec:
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/security/Content/2004.11.10.html


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