Does release 4.1.2 address PC hijacking?

[James Weatherall]

Kirk,

The post you refer to does not relate to VNC, but to a particular form of
malicious software placed on systems, which may occur via a variety of
exploits including malicious web sites, emails, vulnerabilities in the OS or
its services.

A vulnerability was discovered in VNC Free Edition 4.1 & 4.1.1, which could
in principle be used to access a system and load such software onto it.  VNC
Free Edition 4.1.2 was released the same day to address this issue, and
announcements made to this and the VNC-announce mailing lists, but perhaps
you missed them?

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Kirk Waingrow
> Sent: 15 September 2006 23:04
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Does release 4.1.2 address PC hijacking?
> 
> Does the new 4.1.2 release close the door on the intruder 
> that has been able to hijack PC's, drop a "oagain.exe" on the 
> desktop, delete the installed anti-virus software and do 
> whatever else oagain is able to do?
> 
> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2485311&sid=ccf7
efa22edfcbfe4aea30f30ad688b5
> 
> -wk
> 
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