[NEWS] Kaspersky Antivirus License Protection Vulnerability

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Kaspersky Antivirus License Protection Vulnerability
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SUMMARY

Kaspersky Antivirus license protection can be used to disable the
antivirus's functionality if the date of the machine is set to that of an
eariler date than that of the license. Malicious software can use this
method to disable the antivirus by simply changing the date a year back
(for example).

DETAILS

You can cause the Kaspersky antivirus to switch off by changing the year
value in date back one year.

For example:
c:\> date 24.07.2006

Vendor Status:
* 2006-06-15 - Vendor notified via Russian forum
* 2006-06-15 - Vendor replied via forum (private message)
* 2007-07-09 - Vendor asked via forum and VIP-Support
* 2007-07-09 - Vendor replied "
<http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=42889> Issue - 26328"

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:imiturin@russlavbank.com>
Igor U.Miturin.

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