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March 9th, 2004, 07:38 PM
Link to story: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14599

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By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 09 March 2004, 15:04

SECURITY TRACKER warned users of a problem with version 8.00.58 of the 2002 release of Symantec's Norton Anti Virus that could be exploited by virus writers.

The report said that a virus could make a file or a directory which the software can fail to pick up.

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