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Or did they, well that was the shocking thing about the whole incident that was a s recent as a month ago. Apparently, people from Symantec concocted some test for their many installed security software that was to be sent out to do some testing for their intrusion prevention system. The bad thing was, the file was sent out into the wild of the internet without the proper security signatures that tells the many security systems with firewalls that they are indeed from the known security software developer, allowing it in. There was nothing wrong with the myriad of firewalls installed, they performed flawlessly, detecting the intrusion and raising the red flags to inform the many system administrators that there was indeed something abuzz. The test software went through for the system recognized it and did it’s thing but right after was a flurry of calls to the company hot line from alarmed customers who were fearing they were being attacked.
By the time the company realized they had caused the problem themselves, they went immediately into covert damage control which fueled conspiracy theorists as to their aim in doing so. They went onto the many message boards and blogs, eliminating any trace of mention of the said test update, but alas, the cat was out of the bag and they did eventually accept blame for the problem and got down to fixing their not so gracefully coverd-up blunder.