[SGVLUG] Fwd: [Lula] Warning - vnc vulnerability being actively exploited!

[Robert]

Does this apply to all vnc's (including tightvnc) or just the "official"
VNC product?

>
> fyi
>
> --- Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>
>> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:30:09 -0700
>> From: "Dan Kegel" <dank at kegel.com>
>> To: Lula <lula at lula.org>
>> Subject: [Lula] Warning - vnc vulnerability being actively exploited!
>>
>> My father-in-law's seeing popups that say
>>   "You have chosen to download upd.exe.  What would you like Firefox
>> to do with it?"
>> It sounds like this is a vnc exploit:
>>
>>
> http://www.castlecops.com/p803000-Vnc_server_exploited_and_auto_ran_this_download.html
>> So if you have installed VNC on anybody's computer
>> to help you support them, now's a very good time to
>> either uninstall it, or updated it and tighten security
>> (e.g. by restricting access by IP address).
>>
>> This has been going on for about a week, judging by a little
>> web searching I did for problem reports.
>> - Dan
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Robert Leyva
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