Re: VNC is freaking me out!

2012-12-10 Thread Christopher Woods (CM)
Let's be careful to not conflate two issues: if you disconnect from a server the clipboard won't be cleared. However, the arbitrary execution of commands in a spontaneously opened console definitely seems suspicious to me. Certainly worthy of yanking the ethernet until I'd run a full disinfect

Re: VNC is freaking me out!

2012-12-10 Thread Mike Miller
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, John Serink wrote: Probably not. There was some stuff he had on the clipboard of the iPhone that he didn't realise, connected to the host, the clip boards sync up and there it is, on the hosts clipboard. I was responding specifically to a different part of his message:

Re: VNC is freaking me out!

2012-12-08 Thread John Serink
Probably not. There was some stuff he had on the clipboard of the iPhone that he didn't realise, connected to the host, the clip boards sync up and there it is, on the hosts clipboard. Why are you lot so 'wanting' the problem to be 'he's been hacked!'? Computers are machines, no different

RE: VNC is freaking me out!

2012-12-07 Thread Linda Hawksworth
...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Long, Phillip GOSS Sent: 06 December 2012 14:50 To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: RE: VNC is freaking me out! -Original Message- From: Weary Trav Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 3:44 AM Hello everyone

Re: VNC is freaking me out!

2012-12-07 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Weary Trav wrote: A few months ago I started using VNC in order to access my office computer from my Iphone 4. Since I have started using it, I have noticed that at times my command prompt opens up all of a sudden and it starts executing some commands that I have not

Re: VNC is freaking me out!

2012-12-07 Thread Dale Eshelman
I believe you are correct. I have only seen this when someone hacked into the system and was actually using it to send spam, etc. Secure the system, find the backdoor program likely installed. Password everything. Change all passwords. This stopped it for us. On Dec 6, 2012, at 03:59 PM, Mike

RE: VNC is freaking me out!

2012-12-06 Thread Long, Phillip GOSS
-Original Message- From: Weary Trav Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 3:44 AM Hello everyone, snip seek for help: Last night I accessed my computer though VNC, after using it, I closed the ios app and went to sleep, and today morning when I