Stephane Chazelas, who happens to be an open source developer, is the new hero of all the tech fanatics across the world. This open source developer is credited to fix the most dangerous bug on the internet. The bug was growing to become lethal, until one day news hit that this open source developer from Britain has nailed it, according to QeTes.

It was the early morning of 12th September when this Frenchman who works for Norton, Symantec Inc, in Britain made a history by discovering this bug referred to as 'Shell Shock'. According to the experts and the fanatics from norton internet security field, this bug was left unidentified like for 21 years.

Hackers started taking advantage of a norton coupons on Monday morning. They used special viruses called fast viruses and scanned the web for vulnerabilities. Eventually, they infected every system they could.

On the other hand, Shell Shock was one difficult bug to be detected. It leveraged the hackers from around the world with the opportunity to exploit vulnerability on general systems like laptops, personal computers, mobile phones, light bulbs and other similar devices. The fear of Shell Shock can be determined from the statement that experts from the field have been making 'Dangerous than Heartbleed'. Heartbleed was a bug discovered around the month of April. Shell Shock was active since 1993 in this world, but the surprising thing was that nobody discovered it in past 21 years.

It was the Thursday of the past week when the hackers started to decode this virus with the use of worm viruses. Worm viruses are used to scan the internet for harmful bugs. If hidden resources are to be believed, it is still unknown whether secret agencies had information about this bug or not.

Shell shock was generally situated in the Bash, which happens to be an integral part of kernels of operating systems like UNIX. The bug allowed taking control over various devices like web cameras, sound speakers and other processing units. Symantec is giving now norton promo codes as an incentive to users to install internet security software in the computers, tablets and phones. More about norton coupons at qetes.com.