Spam-squirting hole found in McAfee antivirus kit

McAfee is promising to patch a vulnerability in its hosted anti-malware service after it found a flaw that allowed systems where the product was installed to be turned into potential spam-relay nodes.

SaaS for Total Protection, the vulnerable software, will be patched on January 18 or 19, as soon as we have finished testing, McAfee promised in a blog post published on Wednesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com