At 05:45 AM 9/18/2001 -0400, you 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.
That's my point exactly. Handy, but not for the end user.
>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....
I guess I count properly configuring your network and DNS as part of the
network design and OS install, not on any specific application. My mail
server doesn't like operating without DNS either.
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