Stealth Connections?

[James Weatherall]

Pedro,

As I said earlier, VNC 4 does not have the vulnerability found in VNC 3.3
that allows the tray icon to be disabled.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pedro Hermida @ Hotmail [mailto:phermi "at" hotmail.com] 
> Sent: 03 March 2005 12:37
> To: 'John Aldrich'; 'James Weatherall'; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Stealth Connections?
> 
> John,
> 
> Can you tell what to look for in the registry to determine if it was
> "hacked". Sadly, I was using 3.3.7 (guess) until recently. 
> Now I'm on 4.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:JAldrich "at" covista.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:24 AM
> To: 'James Weatherall'; 'phermi'; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Stealth Connections?
> 
> One could always hack the registry to not show the icon at 
> all. There've
> been several posts in various places I've seen discussing how 
> to hide the
> tray icon altogether. But I agree with James -- VNC should 
> not be used to
> "snoop" on people.