From: Ellen K. 

Well, so if a box already has VNC and gets cracked with this, it's harder to spot...

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:58:20 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote in message
:

>Ellen K.  wrote in message
>news::
>> Thank you, I passed this on to the relevant folks at work, since we use
>> VNC.
>
>The problem we are talking about is not a defect in VNC (although Geo has
>referred you to what looks like a pretty good defect).
>
>The Symantec story is about how some systems are been cracked using
>techniques that have nothing to do with VNC. The crack program then
>installs VNC as an easy way for crackers to control the victim in the
>future (a backdoor).
>
>John

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