{"id":53370,"date":"2016-05-17T19:46:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T19:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=53370"},"modified":"2016-05-22T01:57:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T01:57:49","slug":"major-security-hole-norton-anti-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/major-security-hole-norton-anti-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Security Hole Found In Norton Anti-Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have Norton Anti-Virus as your security software protection, you have to read this&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2016\/05\/17\/norton-antivirus-hacked-bug-symantec-flaw\/\">BGR<\/a>, a security researcher found a gaping hole in Norton Anti-Virus.\u00a0 This vulnerability means that any hacker could send a specific coded file\u00a0via email to any Windows, Linux, or Mac PC and successfully infect it.\u00a0 The user did not need to even open the email, as once the malicious code is scanned, you&#8217;re infected.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is, Norton has already begun fixing the problem.\u00a0 If you are using Norton as your security protection, you need to run the Live Update Tool and install any updates available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have Norton Anti-Virus as your security software protection, you have to read this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":53371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4656],"class_list":["post-53370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-pit-blog","tag-norton"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Major Security Hole Found In Norton Anti-Virus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A huge security hole was recently found in Norton Anti-Virus security protection. 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