[SGVLUG] Fwd: [Lula] Warning - vnc vulnerability being actively exploited!

[matti]

fyi 

--- Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:

> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:30:09 -0700
> From: "Dan Kegel" <dank at kegel.com>
> To: Lula <lula at lula.org>
> Subject: [Lula] Warning - vnc vulnerability being actively exploited!
> 
> My father-in-law's seeing popups that say
>   "You have chosen to download upd.exe.  What would you like Firefox
> to do with it?"
> It sounds like this is a vnc exploit:
> 
>
http://www.castlecops.com/p803000-Vnc_server_exploited_and_auto_ran_this_download.html
> So if you have installed VNC on anybody's computer
> to help you support them, now's a very good time to
> either uninstall it, or updated it and tighten security
> (e.g. by restricting access by IP address).
> 
> This has been going on for about a week, judging by a little
> web searching I did for problem reports.
> - Dan
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