Indian hackers offer you assist to man suing Symantec

(Reuters) – A group of Indian hackers has provided assistance to an American man who filed a lawsuit against Symantec Corp by publishing source code from a 2006 version of Norton Utilities, a software plan at the heart of the legal dispute.

A spokesman for the group, which is recognized as &quotLords of Dharmaraja,&quot released much more than 13,000 files that had been component of the product's source code late on Friday. &quotPass it on to forensics and win the lawsuit,&quot YamaTough stated by way of Twitter.

The proposed class-action lawsuit claims that Symantec seeks to convince customers to purchase Norton Utilities and PC Tools software program programs by scaring them with misleading data about the well being of their computers. Symantec has stated those claims are with no merit.

It was not instantly clear how the source code might help the case. And one of the attorneys working with plaintiff James Gross stated that he did not welcome assistance from the Indian hackers.

&quotThis is not something we believe is essential to support our case and we don't support hacking,&quot stated Jay Edelson, an lawyer with Edelson McGuire LLC. &quotWe are not a rogue nation where the only hope is for people to take matters in their own hands.&quot

Symantec spokesman Cris Paden said that his company no longer sells or supports Norton Utilities 2006. &quotThe existing version of Norton Utilities has been totally rebuilt and shares no frequent code with Norton Utilities 2006,&quot he said. &quot

Symantec previously confirmed that the identical group of hackers had accessed the source code to some of its anti-virus computer software.

(Reporting by Jim Finke in Boston Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

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