FYI, I've started a thread about this incident on the ubuntu-devel-discuss ML:<br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2007-March/000542.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2007-March/000542.html
</a><br><br>You might want to check for other open ports BTW; go System -> Administration -> Network Tools, click on the Port Scan tab and scan your IP address.<br><br>CK<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/14/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Vincent Trouilliez</b> <<a href="mailto:vincent.trouilliez@modulonet.fr">vincent.trouilliez@modulonet.fr</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dennis Kaarsemaker <<a href="mailto:dennis@ubuntu.com">dennis@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On wo, 2007-03-14 at 18:23 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:<br>> > I noticed in the notification area, an icon that popped up saying that
<br>> > a remote machine connected to me, what the F..., where does that<br>> > come from, am I being attacked, on LINUX !?<br>><br>> System -> preferences -> remote desktop<br><br>Yeah sure, that's where I rushed, as soon as I had pulled the networked
<br>cable,to check the settings ! :-O<br><br>> It's disabled by default though :)<br><br>Hu ?! Really ? I am glad to hear that :o)<br>However on my box it was all wide opened.<br>Hmm, it's probably because I use a separate /home partition, even on
<br>when testing the development versions of Ubuntu. I must have played<br>with that functionality just once, years ago, had forgotten about it,<br>but Gconf didn't forget ! ;-)<br>I am glad to hear it's secure by default then, phew.
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