Ormandy said his exploits worked on version 15 and 16 of Kaspersky Antivirus on Windows 7.
Our specialists have no evidence that these vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild, the added.
The simple buffer overflow that Kaspersky had neglected to turn on was activated on 15 September.
But the Google Zero researcher noted he was sitting on a number of other Kaspersky vulnerabilities.
Ormandy has promised to research other vendors soon.
And as has been proven, they are often vulnerable.
The smartest hackers in the world are keen to expose anti-virus too.
The common names include Sophos,ESET and FireEye.
Some of them have decided to ditch Antivirus and the most notable one among them is NetFlix.
source: www.techworm.net
