On Monday August 2 1999, crackers compromised the web site of Symantec Corp. The vandals claimed they had infected the company’s systems two months ago with a virus called Bloworm. The site was still unreachable as ComputerWire went to press, but officials deny that there is any such virus on the Symantec network. There is no virus infection, no worm infection, and no danger to customers, spokesperson Richard Saunders told ZDNet. What’s most embarrassing for Cupertino, California-based Symantec is that the company itself sells network security and anti-virus software designed to prevent these sorts of incidents from taking place.
