Subject: unable to connect to host after latest MS Security

John Aldrich JAldrich "at" covista.com
Fri Aug 19 14:46:01 2005


He probably does, now that you mention it. That's one of the most recent
"mandatory" installs... Fortunately for me, it hasn't caused any problems
here... *knocks wood*

-----Original Message-----
From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com]On
Behalf Of James Weatherall
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:56 AM
To: 'Jim Bohnsack'; 'VNC-list'
Subject: RE: Subject: unable to connect to host after latest MS Security


Jim,

I don't suppose you happened to have Microsoft's so-called "anti-spyware"
software installed on the problem machine(s), did you?

Cheers,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack
> Sent: 19 August 2005 12:56
> To: VNC-list
> Subject: Subject: unable to connect to host after latest MS Security 
> 
> I had or have, altho I think I'm making progress, the same 
> problem.  What 
> seems to be working towards a solution is that I uninstalled 
> the patches 
> and then uninstalled VNC.  Following that, I reinstalled the 
> patches and 
> then VNC.  I was able to get a reply from my desktop last 
> night, altho 
> after reinstalling VNC yesterday, I forgot to set the password, so I 
> couldn't get in.  I did, tho, get a reply from the desktop 
> which is more 
> than I had gotten.
> 
> When I was uninstalling the MS patches, about half of the 
> patch uninstalls 
> gave me warning messages saying that VNC may not work after 
> that patch is 
> removed.
> 
> It may not have been necessary to remove the MS patches and 
> VNC.  Perhaps 
> just a removal and reinstall of VNC would have done the same thing.
> Jim
> 
> Jim Bohnsack
> Cornell Univ.
> (607) 255-1760
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