A security researcher at Google Inc., criticizing the anti-virus software because of security loopholes

Designed anti-virus software to protect users from malicious software and all kinds of bad software that may not be aware of its existence. But it seems that in some cases, this software can also be the source of the problem, and this is the reason why security researcher at Google Inc., Mr. Tavis Ormandy recently to criticize many of the products Norton and Symantec in a publication on Google Project Zero blog.
According to Mr. Tavis Ormandy, he has commented, "These vulnerabilities bad. Does not require any user interaction, is the affect on the default setting, the program operates at the highest possible levels of excellence. In some cases on Windows, it is loaded source code loophole to the nucleus, which then leads to the kernel memory corruption. "
But it should be noted that Symantec Corporation has since reforming these gaps that have been discovered by Google Inc. in its programs, but Mr. Tavis Ormandy said that this should not happen in the first place, especially for a company that is supposed to sell to users Products directed to protect them.

He pointed out that while some of the updates is performed automatically, in some cases requiring first obtain official permission for the information technology, which is ratified by information technology managers in companies quickly. In the meantime, if you have some technical knowledge, you may be interested in knowing that Mr. Tavis Ormandy included some of the vulnerabilities discovered on the official blog Google Project Zero.

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