Re: virus?

2002-03-28 Thread Wes Szumera
CAI e-trust has never been bothered by VNC. Wes On 28 Mar 2002 at 23:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has every one forgotten. That both Mcaffe and Norton are treating VNC > as virus becuase it can be used to remotely use a PC. check the VNC > home page fo rteh full story. > > Evan --

Greenie He/EFS/BMTT/BMO is out of the office.

2002-03-28 Thread Greenie . He
I will be out of the office starting 28/03/2002 and will not return until 14/04/2002. I will respond to your message when I return. - To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BO

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2002-03-28 Thread barnowl
System: Slackware 8.0 GDM VNC 3.3.3 unix running -inetd Any one seen this one before. Manually start Xvnc with vncserver every things works fine. When i try and start Xvnc via the -inetd option in inetd.conf I start getting wierd results. I have two identical lines in inted.conf that have corre

VNC in the News

2002-03-28 Thread barnowl
For those that have not seen it here is a link to an IBM article about VNC and other Remote tools. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-share2/?Open&t=grl,l=335,p=shar2 Evan - To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: virus?

2002-03-28 Thread barnowl
Has every one forgotten. That both Mcaffe and Norton are treating VNC as virus becuase it can be used to remotely use a PC. check the VNC home page fo rteh full story. Evan On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:28:52 -0500 "Island Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just yesterday, 4 of my computers with vnc

Re: Why does my VNCServer die for no apparent reason

2002-03-28 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
Not a clue, but I have a Band-Aid. Set the corrective action each time it dies to be to restart the service. If there is something going wrong that nukes the service and keeps it from starting, you will see it fail to start and generate another error - hopefully with a more useful piece of info

Re: ZoneAlarm Lock kicks in when using VNC

2002-03-28 Thread H. Phil Duby
AFAIK ZA does not watch for keyboard / mouse activity. It looks for internet activity, but from the symptoms, 'activity' means a new connection (every http request is a new connection) and my guess is that VNC starts a single connection, and holds it open. ZA does not see the traffic, just the m

Why does my VNCServer die for no apparent reason

2002-03-28 Thread Eddie Atherton
Hi, Following on from my "Error reading protocol version thread", I've found out that the problem was my VNCServer dying. Twice now it's died putting out the following to the NT Event log: Event ID: 7031 The VNC Server service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). The foll

Re: Error Reading Protocol Version

2002-03-28 Thread Eddie Atherton
Du. Now I've got home, I can see that. My next question, after I get the trace to work will be "Why does my VNCServer die for no apparent reason". Cheers, Eddie >From: "Alex K. Angelopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Error Rea

Re: ZoneAlarm Lock kicks in when using VNC

2002-03-28 Thread Fred
Forgot to change the #@$!%& subject line again. Please excuse the repost. http://www.doe.carleton.ca/~fma/VNC_ForumFormat.txt Regarding this VNC/ZA blocking problem, I forgot to mention that I am using vncviewer on a PC to access a server on a sun box. ZA is running on the PC of course, and iso

Re: vnc-list-digest V1 #1503

2002-03-28 Thread Fred
Oops. I forgot to mention that I am using vncviewer on a PC to access a server on a sun box. ZA is running on the PC of course, and isolates the viewer. That's why I found it odd that the keystrokes typed on the PC is not regarded by ZA as "local" when it is in fact local. Not sure if that cha

vncviewer for french keyboards.

2002-03-28 Thread Orac
Anyone have the win32 binary or directions on how to get VNC to work with french keyboards correctly? Thanks, MaShaun Jones - To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See als

Re: Error Reading Protocol Version

2002-03-28 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
That's it; connection refused means you're connecting to something, but there is nothing talking on that port. - Original Message - From: "Eddie Atherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2002-03-28 19:22 Subject: Re: Error Reading Protocol Version > At the mo

Re: virus?

2002-03-28 Thread Island Snow
i did add the DAT update. what i needed to do was update the scanning engine. i was on v4.5.0.x and i just installed version 4.5.1 and now it seems okay... thanks guys! - Original Message - From: "Alex K. Angelopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 19:10:55 -0500 To: <[EMA

Re: Error Reading Protocol Version

2002-03-28 Thread Eddie Atherton
At the moment, that fails with 'telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused'. >From memory, when I checked the server the 1st time I had the problem, it had crashed. Maybe that's happened again. I'll check when I get home. I think I'll turn on tracing for the server to see i

Re: virus?

2002-03-28 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
Try adding the DAT update Dylan mentioned, too. - Original Message - From: "Island Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2002-03-28 18:51 Subject: RE: virus? > i did grab the latest DAT files. i also did the properties on the vnchook file and its 3.3.3.6 > >

RE: virus?

2002-03-28 Thread Island Snow
i did grab the latest DAT files. i also did the properties on the vnchook file and its 3.3.3.6 my mcafee version is v4.5.0.534 - Original Message - From: Dylan McNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:58:05 -0600 To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: vi

Re: Error Reading Protocol Version

2002-03-28 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
My favorite check for this: try Telnet 5902 and see what you get echoed back to you. It should be something like RFB 003.003 If not, let us know what it returns or how it behaves. - Original Message - From: "Eddie Atherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday,

Error Reading Protocol Version

2002-03-28 Thread Eddie Atherton
Hi, I've now had this error twice in as many days. When I try to connect to my home Win2K desktop, via SSH on a Linux box, from a Win2K laptop, I get the following error (vncviewer trace): Started and Winsock (v 2) initialised bufsize expanded to 4352 Registered connection with app Connected t

Re: virus?

2002-03-28 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
Good show, Dylan... :) - Original Message - From: "Dylan McNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2002-03-28 16:58 Subject: RE: virus? > http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/virus.html > Could this be the problem? Check what version of McAfee you're running, >

Re: virus?

2002-03-28 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
That's the same version that I have, and I've done a couple of full scans in the last few days. If it will allow you to right-click and check the properties, you will likely see that it is something like 3.3.3.6. It sounds to me as though the McAfee is being aggressive and determining that VNC m

RE: virus?

2002-03-28 Thread Dylan McNeill
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/virus.html Could this be the problem? Check what version of McAfee you're running, whether it has been updated (the engine as well as the dat). -Original Message- From: Island Snow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 3:30 PM To: [E

RE: virus?

2002-03-28 Thread Jim Webber
Right click on VNCHooks.dll file, select properties, and then select the version tab. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Island Snow Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 4:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: virus? how can i tell what versio

Re: virus?

2002-03-28 Thread Island Snow
how can i tell what version that file is? the size of the vnchooks.dll file is 32.0KB and was modified 3/14/2001 12:09PM mcafee reports the infected file as VNCHooks.dll and the Virus name as WinVNC.dll i've uninstalled, and reinstalled but mcafee still picks it up as a virus. thanks... -

Windows XP - Wallpaper.

2002-03-28 Thread John Clark
Sorry if this has already been covered, but using VNC from my XP Pro to another XP Pro, causes the remote PC to lose it's wallpaper settings. Is there a way of stopping this happening ? Thanks, JC [demime 0.97b removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of Glacier

Re: virus?

2002-03-28 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
What version of the vnchooks.dll do you have - and what is its size? Also, did McAfee give the virus a name? Virus scanners over the last few years have gotten very aggressive - they tend to give false positives if there is any doubt. That said, many viruses will try to glom onto any library fil

virus?

2002-03-28 Thread Island Snow
just yesterday, 4 of my computers with vnc installed on got detected with a virus in the file VNCHooks.dll whats going on? i am running mcafee's virusscan. is it a problem with their DAT file incorrectly identifying the virus, or is there really a problem and somehow all 4 computers got infec

Re: Disable Web Server

2002-03-28 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
ooh... Is that important? :-)) - Original Message - From: "Michael Ossmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (SNIP) > It also prevents denial of service attacks (and possibly other attacks) > that exploit the HTTP server. Of course, this is just one small part of > the nightmare that is VNC security.

Re: Disable Web Server

2002-03-28 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:36:15PM -0500, Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote: > > Note that other than giving a larger number of people *theoretical* access > to your system, this doesn't do much. They still need to connect over the > standard VNC port as soon as they are served the applet. It also pre

RE: VNC on NT4-Server with Mac client

2002-03-28 Thread Rothweiler, Claus
Dear Alex, again, thanks for your help and enjoy easter! I will rather search for eggs than bugs ;-) best regards Claus I would gripe, Claus - but I've had the same thing happen to me. "Oh, we thought you KNEW..." - Original Message - From: "Rothweiler, Claus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <

RE: Disable Web Server

2002-03-28 Thread Steve Palocz
Also, The tight vnc version from www.tightvnc.com has this build in as an option to turn on or off the http server. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex K. Angelopoulos Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: Disable Web Server

2002-03-28 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
If you are using Windows NT/2000/XP. you can do two things I know of. (1) Go into your TCP/IP advanced settings and disable traffic over port 5800 (or the correct port of you are not running on Display 0). (2) I haven't tried this, but you can also open WinVNC.exe using a tool such as Resource H

Semi-Off-Topic - Rotor for BSD and scripting WinNT shutdowns

2002-03-28 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
FYI - for anyone who was interested in "Rotor" and is running BSD, it is now up at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/mssharsourcecli.asp I went to look at it just because I found it very ironic to see a *.tgz file available for download from Microsoft... :) Also, I have a t

Re: Forced Shutdown of Windows NT/2K Systems

2002-03-28 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
Also, in the 8.0x days, pcAnywhere had an annoying habit of choking up while running. It got to the point that on resource-starved servers I would always install the WebAdmin interface just so I could hookup and stop/restart the pcAnywhere service. - Original Message - From: "Dave Warre

rlogin(d) off-topic Networking question

2002-03-28 Thread Mark . Reeder
[history at end] I have (just) set up COMSOCKS 3.08 and can telnet from a local client (Solaris 2.6 IPX) to a Sun workstation at work. FTP OK also. So those fixed ports work OK However, with rlogin, there is some other gotcha leading to "rlogind: Permission denied" presumably this is due to c

RE: Disable Web Server

2002-03-28 Thread Glenn Mabbutt
If you're running a recent version of TightVNC, there's a setting for 'enableHTTPD' that you can turn off. -Original Message- From: Charndeep Bhogal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Disable Web Server Hi, Does anyone know

RE: Disable Web Server

2002-03-28 Thread Glenn Lovitz
It's easy on UNIX/Linux, i.e. Xvnc -- simply remove or rename the "classes" directory under the VNC installation directory. Under windows, sorry but I have no idea... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Charndeep Bhogal > Sent: Thurs

RE: VNC auto startup in Linux

2002-03-28 Thread CHEUNG Chi Wai, Chris
I am using Mandrake 8.2 I have successfully start the VNC session at startup But I cannot have any window manager in the VNC session. If I manually start a VNCserver, there is window manager in the VNC session, any idea? Thanks a lot -Original Message- From: "Beerse, Corne" [mailto:[EMA

Disable Web Server

2002-03-28 Thread Charndeep Bhogal
Hi, Does anyone know how to disable the web server in VNC so that no one can connect to my machine using a Java enabled web browser? Thanks - To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the me

RE: How to remove Server Histories?

2002-03-28 Thread Shola . Ogunlokun
>From an earlier post, these entries are held here HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\VNCviewer\MRU Thanks Shola Ogunlokun -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to remove Server His

display double byte characters

2002-03-28 Thread McAlinden, Fintan
Hi, I'm having a problem displaying double byte characters in the software on a 7.0 Japanese system. I've added the font path to the appropriate line in the vncserver file. # Add font path and color database stuff here, e.g.: # # $cmd .= " -fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,