pcAnywhere supports some security features, including encryption (proprietrary and certificates).
Also, pcA can use a feature called serialization which means a serial key, administered by you, and installed on all pcA's that are allowed to have communications between each other. You can use that to limit what pcA can access a pcA host. I may be wrong, but pcA does not support gateway mode in the last version (10.5). If you use pcA with certificate keys, serialization and over a VPN tunnel, you'll reach a good level of security. I work with pcA since version 7.5 and the only problems I found were with some Compaq on-board video cards... I recommend you to always do your LiveUpdate to download new engines and SYMEVNT's to correct any problems (as Andrew pointed before). Fatfinger ----- Original Message ----- From: "SecurityFocus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:03 PM Subject: RE: PC Anyhwere and IP Forwarding > Well, I really don't think pcAnywhere is a secure way to access the > server. The only acceptable secure configuration using pcAnywhere to me > would be install a ssh host on the server, like vShell from > www.vandyke.com and then using pcAnywher on top of a ssh tunnel. Not > mentioning that pcAnywhere some time causes other application level > incompatibilities which introduces instability of the OS. > > Andrew > MCSE (W2K & NT4) + CCNA > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan Harrington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Posted At: Monday, June 10, 2002 9:00 AM > > Posted To: SecurityFocus > > Conversation: PC Anyhwere and IP Forwarding > > Subject: RE: PC Anyhwere and IP Forwarding > > > > > > Well, you have to have port forwarding for ports 5631 (tcp) > > and 5632 (udp) turned on, and then it will work. > > > > If you can connect directly to a PC on port 5631/5632 from > > the outside and its running in pcanywhere gateway mode, and > > that inside PC has > > multiple IP's or access to the internal network, it will > > gateway to all the local pcanywhere servers on the inside network. > > > > Dan > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Alan Blackwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 7:44 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: PC Anyhwere and IP Forwarding > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Can anyone advise me on the following. > > > > > > A server has two network cards and IP forwarding disabled. > > One of the > > > cards > > > is accessible from an external network, the other is > > accessible from the > > > internal network. The server runs PC Anywhere for support purposes. > > > > > > If someone connects to PC Anywhere from outside the > > internal network, > > > through the card that faces the external network, can they > > can access to the > > > internal network? > > > > > > Given that IP Forwarding is disabled I would imagine not. > > But as using > > > PC > > > Anywhere is just like sitting at a machine I wondered if > > anyone could > > > confirm my guess. > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Alan > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: > http://mobile.msn.com >
