pifts.exe
WOW I cant beleive how quick this has taken off.
I have no real info on pifts.exe with the exception that mach-zehnder it appears to be connected to Norton AntiVirus. I can say Symantec has deleted/removed all posts on their forums about pifts.exe.
Currently everytime I search Google for pifts.exe the results returned increase by 10 – 50 every 10 minutes or so.
Does anyone have some more info on pifts.exe?
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Symantec has made a comment on pifts.exe
A quote taken from
http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis_feedback&thread.id=39119&jump=true
Hi everyone,
Symantec released a diagnostic patch “PIFTS.exe” targeting Norton Internet Security and Norton Antivirus 2006 & 2007 users on March 9, 2009. This patch was released for approximately 3 hours (4:30 – 7:40 PM March 9, 2009 Pacific Time). In a case of human error, the patch was released by Symantec “unsigned”, which caused the firewall user prompt for this file to access the Internet. The firewall alert for the patch caused understandable concern for users and began to be reported back to Symantec. Releasing a patch unsigned is an extremely rare occurrence that does not pose any security issues to our users. The patch reached a limited number of Norton customers and has subsequently been pulled from further distribution. Norton users are fully protected and do not need to take any action as a result of this issue.