Hot on the heels of a McAfee cockup in which antivirus software falsely detected MS Excel and other apps as viruses, an update to Norton's security software has made it think that AOL's connection process is naughty behavious, thus blocking it.[ZDNet]As a result of the incorrect update, AOL dial-up customers lost their connection and AOL broadband users were unable to access AOL servers, Symantec said. The erroneous update was removed from Symantec's servers about seven hours after it was released, and a corrected version was posted, the company said.


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