Symantec's pcAnywhere Woes May Be Worse Than We Thought

Symantec advised users of its compromised pcAnywhere software to disable the remote-access tool about a month ago, but a security firm said this week that as many as 200,000 computers out in the wild may still be exposed to hijacking by hackers, including some 5,000 systems used to collect and process credit card data.

Symantec first advised pcAnywhere users to uninstall the software in late January after an anonymous party published the software's 2006 source code on the Internet. The security software vendor then issued patches for versions 12.0, 12.1 and 12.5 of the product, which enables users to remotely access their PCs from other computers and devices.

The security software vendor said at the time that customers who patched their software with those updates should be protected from possible attacks stemming from the hackers' access to the source code, which security experts warned could include remote commandeering of vulnerable computers.

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