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Y2.01K bug trips up symantec: error causes red faces

Symantec's Endpoint Protection Manager has been hit by a classic date bug and fell over at the end of the year, accepting no definition updates dated since then.

Symantec has issued a statement saying: "An issue has been identified in the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager server whereby all types of SEP definition content with a date greater than December 31, 2009 11:59pm are considered to be 'out of date'."

Until the bug is fixed, Symantec has a "bandaid" strategy;Symantec Response will continue to publish Symantec Endpoint Protection antivirus and other definitions with the date 12/31/2009, and will only increase the revision number of the definition.

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