System Preferences: Can't choose Anywhere or Advanced

When viewing the "Security & Privacy" section of the "System Preferences" app in OSX Mavericks 10.9.0, under the "General" sub-heading and with the padlock in the unlocked state, I cannot select the "Anywhere" option under "Allow apps downloaded from". As soon as I choose it, it reverts to whatever the setting was previously (and either of the first two options works).
Moreover, when pressing the "Advanced..." button at the bottom, the options flash very quickly and nothing else happens.
Is this possibly the result of some antivirus or spyware installed by the company I work for? They have LANdesk running on this machine, presently.

Very likely, if they have remote administration software installed, it's preventing you from changing those settings.
Note that it's not a good idea to change that setting to "Anywhere" anyway. That totally disables an important security setting in Mac OS X that has been, from time to time, the only thing between your machine and certain new malware programs.
If you need to run a program that the current settings do not allow, you can simply hold down the control key, click the app in question and choose Open from the contextual menu that appears. Rather than refusing you outright, this will show a warning that will allow you to choose to open it. This is only necessary once, if done on an administrator account, after which the app will be marked as safe and can be opened normally.

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