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Because pcAnywhere 7.5, Symantec's remote-control tool, is often used in help-desk situations - one of the two usability tests we developed for this Comparison - we thought it might make a quick-and-dirty alternative to the other solutions,and planned to include it in this Comparison. However, as much as we tried to stretch it, pcAnywhere just isn't built for the multipoint scenario we created. Although Version 7.5 supports connections to multiple remotes from a single host, round-robin style conferencing means cutting and pasting between multiple shared application windows It's a colossal kludge and would have reflected unfairly on Symantec's well-regarded product.