Symantec vexes vicars
Here’s another episode in the continuing saga of bad code from Symantec.
Many Church of England vicars use a software tool called Visual Liturgy to plan, create and deliver church services. On July 8, Symantec issued a new virus definition that had “a significant detrimental effect on Visual Liturgy”, according to Church House Publishing (CHP), the publishing arm of the Church of England.
As first reported by ZDNet UK on Thursday, Norton Antivirus wrongly identified a file integral to Visual Liturgy as Sniperspy, a piece of spyware. After receiving the update, users were prompted to accept the Sniperspy threat warning and delete the file, called vlutils.dll. This rendered Visual Liturgy useless.
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