On Tuesday 08 May 2007 22:34:30 Gerardo Curiel wrote: > El mar, 08-05-2007 a las 22:24 +0200, Thomas Hochstein escribió: > > Chris Adams schrieb: > > > Do you have a VNC server installed? > > > > > | But I do have vino-server running. > > > > Yes. > > That's the problem, the same happened to me a couple of weeks ago, in my > Desktop(a newly installed Debian Unstable). > > Vino seems to open the vnc port to the outside without password when > installed by default.
I would say the problem is more that his system is configured to allow any servers without explicit authorisation. That could just as easily have been a trojan or rootkit opening a port. Best to setup your firewall to block all incoming connections by default, and explicitly allow only what your system is actually serving, and only to machines it needs to serve. -- Lee
