[20788] in bugtraq
RE: Nortan Antivirus 2000 Poproxy.exe problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Laermans)
Mon May 28 17:08:19 2001
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 22:14:36 +0200
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@powersource.cx>
In-Reply-To: <NFBBIABMNMCNDDMNAACNEEPNCBAA.mconnor@gocode.com>
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Hi,
At 19:38 24/05/2001, you wrote:
> >Poproxy.exe is the email virus scanner included in Nortan Antivirus 2000...
> >While messing around with this i crashed the server by sending it
> >too many characters (269 or more).
This, I cannot confirm.
>Hi! I am having difficulty confirming this for two reasons. Perhaps I am
>doing something wrong. I am running Norton Antivirus 2000 with poproxy.exe
>on MS Outlook 2000.
You're probably running liveupdate because...
>poproxy.exe SEEMS to only bind to localhost (127.0.0.1) instead of my IP on
>the network (192.168.0.24). If I try to telnet to port 110 from another
>Windows machine, it cannot connect. If I try to telnet to 127.0.0.1 from my
... this used to be the case that it was bound to all interfaces. It was
discovered as a bug (after a long time of bickering with Symantec) and they
fixed it in a patch, which could be applied if you used their LiveUpdate
feature.
An unpatched version will have the problem.
-Tom
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