[SGVLUG] OT2 - PIFTS.exe - might be fun to use strings on this

[Emerson, Tom (*IC)]

Even though this is less than a day or two old, it is (ironically?)
already "old news" ;)

http://www.freebase.org/
http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/03/10/symantec-clarifies-piftsexe-
fiasco/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/10/norton_pifts_mystery/

[Note: really long URLs follow...]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynew
s/4969463/Internet-conspiracy-theories-abound-over-Symantec-Pifts.exe-fi
le.html

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/161038/bad_symantec_update
_leads_to_trouble.html

And perhaps one of the more interesting ones:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5992
(the one people should have gone to after finding their posts deleted at
symantec)


[oh, and if you look at the slashdot thread on this, you'll find someone
already ran strings against it...]