Safety gaps in AVG, Symantec & McAfee security products

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The research comes from twin EnSilo (Udi Yavo and Tommer Bitton) who discovered anti-virus bugs and Windows security tools before presenting them at the Black Hat conference to be held in Las Vegas next month.lock Symantec

The researchers report that 15 products are affected, from AVG, Symantec and McAfee. In fact, many of them are more vulnerable, through Microsoft's code Detours, used to “re-launch Win32 APIs in applications. This code is used within almost every Microsoft product. "

The researchers did not specify whether an improved version of Microsoft's enhanced mitigation experience toolkit (EMET) is affected.

“We found six different security issues arising from the flaw of the code and injection techniques" they report. “These issues were found in more than 15 different products. In practice, this means that thousands of products are affected.”

Microsoft is reportedly preparing a patch for Detours and it will probably be released next month. Until then, millions of users remain exposed to this security vulnerability.

The researchers tested hooks of various functions common to all security products as well as man-in-the-middle malware such as Duqu, and came to the disappointing conclusion that many of them are vulnerable to exploits.

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