Oops, Symantec AV Takes Out Chinese Users
Author: Dave Lewis
It turns out that a large (very large) number of Chinese users on Windows XP2 with Norton antivirus products installed are being blue screened right now. This affects users with simplified Chinese XP SP2.
It’s a terrible day for lots of Chinese users (especially Enterprise Users) who use Norton products today. Since this morning, we have received many reports from lots of users. They meet the same problem that Norton detects two system files “netapi32.dll” and “lsasrv.dll” as Backdoor.Haxdoor when they finish upgrading their database to May.17,2007 , and these two files will be deleted.
The end result it a corrupted Windows box. Symantec has since released a fixed definition file which is available via LiveUpdate. Which, would mean something if affected users could get back into their systems. Not too clear on how badly these systems are getting hosed.
Tags: Chinese XP, Bad Symantec Definitions, Blue Screen
[...] I can’t say that his comes as any great surprise. After the debacle in late May which saw hundreds of Chinese user of Symantec have their computers blue screened due [...]