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From: "Antti Kurenniemi"
Thanks, John.
Looks a bit bad, I'm seeing strange connections in too many systems here.
Could be a formatting-fest coming up next weekend ;-)
Antti Kurenniemi
(I find it hard to believe that someone would have cracked my password;
it's 18 characters long of which 8 are numbers and 4 non-alphabet, and the
two parts that make any sense are pseudo-Finnish I made up myself
)
"John Beckett" wrote
in message news:3e76f71e.9524084{at}216.144.1.254...
> Looks bad Antti! It may be time to panic.
>
> Go to Google Groups, Advanced Search, and search for
> VNC backdoor
> since, say, 1 March 2003. I have also seen a reference to a hack with
> winvnc in October 2002. Apparently, once you have cracked a system,
> it is pretty easy to install VNC as a comfortable way to come back.
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