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===pcAnywhere exploit=== On February 17, 2012, details of an exploit of pcAnywhere were posted. The exploit would allow attackers to crash pcAnywhere on computers running [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]].<ref>{{cite web | last=Keizer | first=Gregg | title=pcAnywhere exploit hackers could hijack 200,000 Windows PCs | website=ComputerworldUK | date=February 23, 2012 | url=http://www.computerworlduk.com/it-vendors/pcanywhere-exploit-hackers-could-hijack-200000-windows-pcs-3339638/ | access-date=April 16, 2017}}</ref> Symantec released a hotfix for the issue twelve days later.<ref>{{cite web|title=Claims by Anonymous about Symantec Source Code|url=http://www.symantec.com/theme.jsp?themeid=anonymous-code-claims%7ccc|publisher=Symantec|access-date=September 18, 2013|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924125257/http://www.symantec.com/theme.jsp?themeid=anonymous-code-claims%7ccc|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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