According to research conduct by eEye, a vulnerability remote exploit has been found in Symantec Antivirus product. The flaw does not require any user interaction for exploitation and can compromise the systems. With this exploit, the affected system allow for the execution of malicious code with SYSTEM level access. Symantec software that affected with this vulnerability are Symantect Antivirus 10.x, Symantect Client Security 3.x and maybe other products also affeted with this exploit.
Source: eEye Digital Security
Cypher says: Fortunately I use Kaspersky on my comp. 🙂