Norton Anti-Virus fails to scan files with certain characters in path names
09:41 - Monday 8 March 2004 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: norton, anti Category : Miscellaneous
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: norton, anti Category : Miscellaneous
According to a security alert published by Security Tracker, Symantec’s Norton AntiVirus software will crash when performing a manual scan of a file or folder with a name containing certain ASCII characters. The report indicates that ASCII characters 1 - 31 can be used in a folder or filename to trigger the flaw.
Read the security alert .
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