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Reading 2 news regarding Symantec:

1. If you use Symantec (Norton) AntiVirus, beware that it was found having buffer overflow while decomposing RAR file. A properly drafted rar file could attack your antivirus and open your machine for remote access. What’s the work around right now? Avoid it, filtering out rar files for scanning, until they have the fix.
2. Symantec wouldn’t sell or support its product LC5 (a.k.a L0phtCrack, a NT password hash cracker — well, in security point of view, it was named password auditing and recovery tool) outside of US, due to US Government export policy . It’s been years I have never heard news of security-related algorithm export regulartion of US. Wow, it ain’t disappear yet!