Symantec Recommends Disabling PcAnywhere Prompted by Anonymous

Symantec has warned users of its remote access tool, pcAnywhere, to disable the product until it patches vulnerabilities related to the 2006 theft of source code by hacktivist group, Anonymous. Yesterday, Symantec confirmed the theft of source code from the 2006 versions of several Norton security products and the pcAnywhere remote access tool.

"Symantec can confirm that a segment of its source code has been accessed," the company said on a Web page. "...it was not until the source code showed up again via the claims and disclosure by Anonymous that we put two and two together and realized code was indeed stolen. All of the code Anonymous has was for 2006 versions of products. As such, we focused our investigation on the time period and went back through logs and data to confirm the two incidents were related."

"At this time, Symantec recommends disabling the product until we release a final set of software updates that resolve currently known vulnerability risks," the company in a statement Wednesday.

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