this is my defective kit.

it’s not broken.

Symantec’s PIFTS.exe

Symantec released an update March 9th, 2009. This update was not given a digital signature to allow it to clear through Symantec’s firewall, so there was an alert that Norton was giving. The alert said that it didn’t know what PIFTS.exe was and that it could potentially be dangerous. And no, it was not dangerous.

Well this update has since been pulled by Symantec, however there are many search results in Google giving false information about PIFTS.exe. Most of them are malware / spyware programs attempting to get their claws into the unknowing public.

I am not going to talk about the forum problems Symantec was having. It’s not my place to write that story here.

I am just writing a quick note that PIFTS.exe is a Symantec update and there shouldn’t be anymore worries about it. Just don’t download any programs saying it will fix PIFTS.exe. If you did accidentally did download a piece of malware, then I recommend using Malware Bytes Anti-Malware program. It’s the one I use to clean up malware and other crud that shouldn’t be in systems.

March 10, 2009 - Posted by Charlie | Nerd Stuff | , , , , , ,

1 Comment »

  1. I tryed to download csc.exe as you instruced but it will go no further than the 6 selections. What am I doing wrong?? HELP

    Comment by Bill Sxott | April 1, 2009 | Reply


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