Security threat in popular Antivirus Software

Swedish computer Security Company warns for new security problem in a well-known antivirus program. Hidden in the program designed to protect the users there is a critical security threat. The bug was discovered by Joel Soderberg at Texonet while conducting an evaluation of various antivirus products.

The Swedish computer security company Texonet has found a serious security problem in one of the worlds most well-known antivirus software. This problem exists in multiple versions of the antivirus program PC-cillin form Trend Micro. The program that is designed to protect the users creates a serious security problem.

-"We have identified the problem in PC-cillin 2000, PC-cillin 2002 and PC-cillin 2003", says Joel Soderberg, the security consultant at Texonet that discovered the bug. "Further more basically the same problem has been found in OfficeScan Corporate Edition 5.02."

Texonet works with security assessments and the discovery was made while evaluating various antivirus products. Some functions in the program stopped responding during one of the tests, which made the security consultant suspicious. When the cause was identified there was no doubt that a serious security threat is hidden in the program.

-"This is a serious security threat since it could have been used to infect computers with viruses and Trojans", says Christer Oberg, security consultant at Texonet. "Thanks to a good cooperation with Trend Mirco the issue as been resolved and a solution is available."

Everyone using the program is recommended to download and install an update. Detailed information and the update are available in Trend Micros Knowledge Base:
http://kb.trendmicro.com/solutions/solutionDetail.asp?solutionId=12982

More information is available on the company homepage: www.texonet.com