pcAnywhere is not safe
Uh-oh. This is not good:
If you haven’t already heard, the code base for Symantec’s pcAnywhere was stolen in 2006, and bad guys are now using that code against the installed base of users in the wild. This sort of compromise really isn’t anything that new or different. But what is different is that Symantec is now telling users to flat out disable pcAnywhere until a fix is released. Which is a good, smart move, but a better move would be to remove pcAnywhere and never, ever start it up again!
Agreed. When it gets that bad…