> Interesting thought, I wonder if any corporations have enough sense to
close
> these potential holes? Is anyone compelling their employees to secure
their
> home machines which are accessing corporate VPNs?
How do you plan to close these potential holes?
The only way a corporate network can do
Angus Macleod writes:
>Concerning paranoia, I think that it is not only reasonable, but necessary
>to protect your home PC or network with some sort of firewall (or NAT
>server) if you are also one of those people who has an "always on"
>connection and who accesses their corporate network from hom
> I would agree that a hacker would not find very much of interest on the
> typical home PC, but might find it more entertaining to piggy back from
> there right past the corporate firewall and into the internal resources of
> where you work.
A true hacker wouldn't care (Although they might relay
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> Mickey Ferguson writes:
> >I was just wondering if any virus generators, etc., might know about this
> >port and try to gain acces
Mickey Ferguson writes:
>Maybe I didn't make my case clear, or I'm misunderstanding something here.
>When I spoke of disabling NPF, I meant that I need to disable NPF on my
>WinVNC *client* machine, not the server (host). My server is not running
>NPF and doesn't need to be running it. It's behi
I would concur with this.
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> I think you have to register VNC with NPF as an applica
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Mickey Ferguson writes:
>I was just wondering if any virus generators, etc., might know about this
>port and try to gain access into my PC that way. Is that a sec
Mickey Ferguson writes:
>I was just wondering if any virus generators, etc., might know about this
>port and try to gain access into my PC that way. Is that a security risk?
>After all, I do have a workaround where I disable NPF, connect to VNC, and
>then immediately re-enable NPF. That leaves m
seconds maximum. Maybe I should leave well enough alone?
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Mickey Ferguson writes:
>I'
Thanks, I'll take a look at that tonight.
Regards,
Mickey
-Original Message-
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Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:22 AM
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Mickey Ferguson writes:
>I
>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 11:20 AM
Subject: WinVNC and Norton Personal Firewall 2001
> I've just installed Norton Personal Firewall 2001 (version 3.0?) on my PC
at
> home. I have WinVNC Host installed on my PC at work. I connect to our
work
> n
Mickey Ferguson writes:
>I've just installed Norton Personal Firewall 2001 (version 3.0?)
>on my PC at
>home. I have WinVNC Host installed on my PC at work. I connect
>to our work
>network using Virtual Private Network. Before installing NPF, I could
>connect (using WinVNC Client) to my work PC
I've just installed Norton Personal Firewall 2001 (version 3.0?) on my PC at
home. I have WinVNC Host installed on my PC at work. I connect to our work
network using Virtual Private Network. Before installing NPF, I could
connect (using WinVNC Client) to my work PC with no problems. After
inst
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