*****SPAM***** Symantec LiveUpdate

From: Javier Sanchez (jsanchez157at_private)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 09:14:50 PST

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    Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition includes LiveUpdate.  LiveUpdate stores 
    Username and Password information in cleartext in the registry.  Depending 
    on your implementation, you may not need LiveUpdate installed at all on your 
    clients.
    
    I brought this to Symantec's attention months ago.  Since then a new version 
    of LiveUpdate has been released.  The information is still not encrypted.
    
    Any user with the client installed can run "regedit" search for "password" 
    and viola!
    
    Here's a "fix":
    Paste the following into a .reg file (i.e. nav.reg) and push it out to your 
    clients via login script or whatever:
    REGEDIT4
    
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\INTEL\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\LiveUpdateSource]
    "Login"=-
    "Password"=-
    
    
    
    
    
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