Symantec on Wednesday named more than 60 of its products as affected by the critical vulnerability disclosed earlier this week, and said it was pushing out a "heuristic detection that would spot potential exploits. However, no patches have yet been released.
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On the consumer side, the 2006 versions of Norton AntiVirus, Internet Security, SystemWorks, and Personal Firewall are open to attack. Corporate titles such as Norton AntiVirus for Microsoft Exchange, BrightMail Antispam, and AntiVirus for Handhelds are also on the list.
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The only protection for the moment is a special detection capability that Symantec is downloading to users' systems.
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The company is working on patches for the affected products, but hasn't given a timeline for completing the fixes. In the meantime, it urged all users to run LiveUpdate to download the heuristic detection.
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