Symantec antivirus software security flaw exposed Hackers use of the

Last Friday, experts warned that the use of a Symantec enterprise anti-virus software in a known security flaws of the worm has spread on the Internet.
be eEyeDigitalSecurity known as the BigYellow of the worm can become a defective computer to be controlled remotely, zombies.
This is the second use of disclosure has been six months of SymantecClientSecurity and SymantecAntiVirusCorporateEdition a security flaw in the malicious code. Symantec released in May on a software patch.
eEye's chief technology officer Maifuleide said the new scanners will run botworm defective computer software, Symantec, and then it tried to infection. He said that the worm spread of a wide range of topics.
eEye has been tracking the worm to be used to download malicious part of the load of server, the server has more than 60,000 systems send data.
Symantec Security Response senior director Vincent said that Symantec had been aware of the existence of the new worm, but it does not think the issue is a serious threat. Only 3 customers find the worm, but Symantec's security sensor network background noise .
He said that technically, eEye is correct, there is a new botworm, but it is related to the impact of the worm with a misleading statement because we have not yet found the outbreak of large-scale activities.
last month, Spybot has a variant on the Internet. When installed on a PC when, Spybot and BigYellow system will open a back door, and one of the Internet chat rooms connected to the server so that hackers can remotely control the infected computer. According to Microsoft, said such long-range of WindowsPC control software is the most common threats.
widely used Symantec's security software bug in one of the highlights was the use of worms security experts had pointed out a trend of security: hackers are increasingly looking at the outside of the operating system software defects.
Vincent said that every time the mainstream applications in the emerging defects, which were used in botworm the possibility is very high. The hackers have been sighted by the operating system to applications in the future this trend will continue.