Concerns w/ VNC Abuse

[Dave Warren]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rene Skudstrup" <Rene.Skudstrup "at" Skolekom.dk>
To: <vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: Concerns w/ VNC Abuse



> You're right.. It could be used as a hacker tool.
> Only dffference I see about the programs mentioned here and VNC is
> that VNC must be installed (as the others), and I see no way of this
> happening without user intervention (You would have to run the entire
setup
> program on the remote computer to "hack" it.
>
> Question is, maybe the best intervention for theese kind of attack would
be
> user education, to prevent users from blindly trust everyting they recieve
> in email

I just did on my parent's machine, NT workstation to save me a trip across
the house :)

I am already network administrator and used those rights to install it, but
they didn't see anything until they rebooted and the tray icon was there.



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