Fix for NIS/NPF 2002!!!

[jvmorris]

See the post by sonofjay at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10386208~mode=flat .

[jvmorris]

Has anyone received a LiveUpdate for NIS/NPF 2002 (from Symantec, of course) that corrects the problem that occurred on 12 May 2004?

I got a rather large LiveUpdate summary this morning, but it included nothing that addressed this issue. Still, that may be simply because I had already manually installed the missing file here.

It's now four weeks since the problem occurred and the solution has been well established for quite some time now and I was just curious as to whether or not Symantec has now seen fit to propagate it to its users -- not all of whom frequent this Forum.

[jvmorris]

From http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10357746~mode=flat~days=9999~start=300 , Reese Anschultz (Symantec) says
-{ Quote: "We are actively working on a new version of the patch that won't have this problem, and, working on a patch to fix those people that received the previous patch and are now having performance issues. Unfortunately, I don't have an ETA at this point of when we plan to release the patch. Give this most recent patch, we really want to make sure that we get it right. In the meantime, the currently suggested solution of manually putting SymIDS on the system is a safe and acceptable solution. I wish that I could offer a simpler solution, but we don't have one at this point.

When we get closer to releasing the patch, I'll provide an update. In the meantime, if anybody is interested in testing the patch before its official release, please send me an e-mail with a subject line similar to "I want to test the 2002 patch". My e-mail is reese_anschultz@symantec.com.
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