heads up, folks: random vnc (remote desktop) attempts

[H.S.]

Norberto Bensa wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:55 PM, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So the remote user first has to expect to get the desktop, on the right
>> OS (windows, mac, Linux), the right kernel and architecture and without
>> the security updates to get into the system to fiddle with rootkits.
> 
> Yeah. Pretty much 99.995% of the computers around the world. Scary eh? :-)
> 

I was just thinking that the person has to be extremely suspicious if
some slackness is found in VNC configuration on Windows than on, say, a
FreeBSD or a GNU/Linux system.



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