More vulns in AV products

eTrust, PC Tools suffer security bugs.

CA's WebScan has had several security holes discovered in its ActiveX control system, while PC Tools AntiVirus has been revealed to have suffered a vulnerability allowing privilege escalation.

Both issues were announced last week by Secunia - read about the eTrust problems here, and the PC Tools issue here. The problems are both believed to have since been patched by the vendors.

07 August 2006

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