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‘Keylogger text’ spooks Symantec

Here’s a funny piece. Apparently the script kiddies have been capitalizing on a weirdness in Symantec’s code. It turns out that when typing “startkeylogger” or “stopkeylogger” in an IRC channel this causes a logoff of anyone using Norton Firewall and the Norton Internet Security suites. The aforementioned commands are found in the Spybot worm.

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