Settings Changing by Themselves

2009-09-17 Thread Steven Orlando
Hello All!

I have the RealVNC Free Edition, the latest version. It works, but it seems 
like sometimes I can't connect from my home to one of the computers. When I go 
to that computer and click on the VNC server settings in the tray. I notice 
that some info is changed, and I didn't change it, specifically:

1. I tried to log in from home, and it asked for a password. I set it up for no 
authentication, and the setting got changed to VNC Password Authentication by 
itself

2. One of my co-workers couldn't get in, and when we checked the VNC server 
properties, the accept connections on  port was changed, and we didn't change 
it.

What could be causing this? We are using WinXP Pro on the host computer (the 
one we are trying to control).

Steve
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Re: Settings Changing by Themselves

2009-09-17 Thread Alex Pelts
How about someone hacking that machine and changing settings?



Steven Orlando wrote:
 Hello All!

 I have the RealVNC Free Edition, the latest version. It works, but it seems 
 like sometimes I can't connect from my home to one of the computers. When I 
 go to that computer and click on the VNC server settings in the tray. I 
 notice that some info is changed, and I didn't change it, specifically:

 1. I tried to log in from home, and it asked for a password. I set it up for 
 no authentication, and the setting got changed to VNC Password 
 Authentication by itself

 2. One of my co-workers couldn't get in, and when we checked the VNC server 
 properties, the accept connections on  port was changed, and we didn't 
 change it.

 What could be causing this? We are using WinXP Pro on the host computer (the 
 one we are trying to control).

 Steve
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Re: Settings Changing by Themselves

2009-09-17 Thread Dale Eshelman
good point. I have personally seen it attempted. When sitting at the  
office using WXP Pro PC all of a sudden saw cursor moving. Watched as  
the hacker obtained Admin privileges, changed VNC settings, wrote FTP  
code to forward all communication to a chinese based IP address at a  
university there. Then killed the office PC. Found the backdoor code,  
deleted it, and changed all passwords. In addition, changed primary IP  
address in routers ex 192.168.1.1 changed to 192.168.1.2.

To this day we have not been able to figure out how the hacker  
obtained Admin privileges to make the changes. However, have not seen  
another successful hacker. By the way, virus detection did not find  
anything unusual.


On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Alex Pelts wrote:

 How about someone hacking that machine and changing settings?



 Steven Orlando wrote:
 Hello All!

 I have the RealVNC Free Edition, the latest version. It works, but  
 it seems like sometimes I can't connect from my home to one of the  
 computers. When I go to that computer and click on the VNC server  
 settings in the tray. I notice that some info is changed, and I  
 didn't change it, specifically:

 1. I tried to log in from home, and it asked for a password. I set  
 it up for no authentication, and the setting got changed to VNC  
 Password Authentication by itself

 2. One of my co-workers couldn't get in, and when we checked the  
 VNC server properties, the accept connections on  port was  
 changed, and we didn't change it.

 What could be causing this? We are using WinXP Pro on the host  
 computer (the one we are trying to control).

 Steve
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and I see a Mac on the horizon.

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