Dave Warren wrote:
>
>
> Nope, PCAnywhere advertises that it's running. I loaded it up on my cable
> modem, and immediately saw a couple people in my node running PCAnywhere,
> one without a password. Handy feature.
Handy for who? A hacker? ;-) That's the last thing I want my system
to do. I don't want it to advertise its existence. I want it to
disappear.
My logs are full of rejected packets from mis-configured win boxes
advertising their existence on the net.
>
> But then, on my local area network VNC can connect to the computer
> "systems1" just by typing "systems1", even though it's assigned a dynamic
> IP. Hmmmmm. Magic. Or just using DNS properly. One of the two, anyway.
>
See my earlier post about *nix v. win software models. Exactly my
point; PCAnywhere is easier to use but a security risk; VNC is more
difficult to set up if you include the "properly configured DNS"
setup....
--Yan
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