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November 13, 2005 at 3:09 pm
The Symantec angle of this story is particularly interesting to me. Frank, you know more about security than I do; is this the first instance where an anti-virus company has put out a patch to remove code that was installed by a supposedly legitimate company, as opposed to a clandestine hacker?
November 13, 2005 at 7:53 pm
Most of what I know about computer security I learned on alt.comp.virus.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.virus?hl=en
But it’s the first I’ve heard of such a thing.