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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: John Beckett
date: 2003-03-19 09:10:54
subject: Re: Strange business with WinVNC on my computer

From: John Beckett 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> (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 )

At command prompt, enter:

runas /user:administrator cmd

You will be prompted to enter a password. Just press Enter (blank
password). Does it work? (If it works, it will start a new command prompt
window.)

What I'm getting at is, your username might have a great password, but what
about Administrator?

BTW I noticed today that Symantec has quite a good write up on what sounds
to be your problem. I forget if I searched for "vnc" or
"winvnc". They talked about removing the trojan. Personally, I
would wipe and reinstall, as ghastly as that is.

John

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