FYI : Those who don't know about IRC Chat, it's similar to the modern Instant Messaging Networks like AOL & MSN Messenger, it's more like an open chat/public chat room and has been in use much before the Instant Messaging.
Symantec is planning to tweak the behavior of Norton Internet Security & Norton Personal Firewall so that they are no longer vulnerable to Spybot Worm.
If someone types "startkeylogger" or "stopkeylogger" in an IRC channel, anyone on the channel using the affected Norton products will be immediately kicked off without warning.
These are commands typically issued by the Spybot worm, which spreads over IRC and peer-to-peer file-swapping networks, installing a program that records and transmits everything the victim types (known as a keylogger). Spybot is an annoying but otherwise harmless prank that "script kiddie" hackers have been using for the past week or so to knock users off online chat channels.
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