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Symantec - Disable pcAnywhere Now! Who the Heck Still uses it?Originally posted on VoIP & Gadgets Blog, here: http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/technology-and-science/symantec---disable-pcanywhere-now-who-the-heck-still-uses-it.asp. Symantec suspected in 2006 that its network had been breached, but when Anonymous started talking publicly about Symantec source code it confirmed their suspicions. According to Wired: The company surprised the public last week when it disclosed that hackers had obtained source code for its pcAnywhere software and other products, and that the code had likely been stolen in a six-year-old breach that Symantec had never disclosed.Disable pcAnywhere? Disable pcAnywhere? Now I was a huge fan of pcAnywhere ... back in like 1996. It was one of the first, perhaps the first remote desktop sharing software. But when Windows XP bundled a free version of essentially the same functionality, I stopped using pcAnywhere. Putting aside some slowness issues with Microsoft's Remote Desktop client, why pay for software when you can get it for free? I'm shocked that people still use pcAnywhere when Microsoft offers a free remote desktop client from Windows XP on - Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, etc. Not to mention the various free VNC & open source cross-platform clients. You can read the security whitepaper, where Symantec advises users to disable pcAnywhere due to Anonymous's access to the source code of not just pcAnywhere, but also Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, Norton Internet Security, and Norton SystemWorks (Norton Utilities and Norton GoBack). Good thing I use avast! antivirus!
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