Ok, this is some dark humor: It looks like the researcher sent a proof of concept zip file to symantec which was pw protected with a common password. Symantec

Ok, this is some dark humor: It looks like the researcher sent a proof of concept zip file to symantec which was pw protected with a common password. Symantec's system then tried the common password, extracted the zip, scanned the POC code inside, which crashed their own system. From the report: Project Member Comment 1 by taviso@google.com, Yesterday (42 hours ago) I think Symantec's mail server guessed the password "infected" and crashed (this password is commonly used among antivirus vendors to exchange samples), because they asked if they had missed a report I sent. They had missed the report, so I sent it again with a randomly generated password.