Symantec Users, Start Your Keyloggers

Script kiddies have been taking advantage of intrusion prevention features of Symantec’s Norton Firewall and Norton Internet Security Suites to knock users offline in IRC channels, according to an amusing post at Washingtonpost.com. From the article: ‘Turns out that if someone types “startkeylogger” or “stopkeylogger” in an IRC channel, anyone on the channel using the affected Norton products will be immediately kicked off without warning.

I tend to believe anyone who uses Norton Internet Security doesn’t care much about their PC experience to begin with, so what do they expect? If it’s as easy as typing in a simple string of text though, that’s almost laughable. More at Slashdot.