Re: VNC impact- helpdesk troubleshooting client machines

From: Marlon Brown (marlon_brownj@hotmail.com)
Date: 07/26/02 

From: "Marlon Brown" <marlon_brownj@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:06:36 -0700

I admire you guys. Thanks a lot !

"karl [x y]" <jamescagney90210@excite.com> wrote in message
news:OHsmwVMNCHA.2192@tkmsftngp08...
> "Marlon Brown" <marlon_brownj@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:#TFVQIMNCHA.2680@tkmsftngp13...
> > Any security implication when setting VNC for remote troubleshooting ?
> > Helpdesk would hook up to the machine and troubleshoot it remotely.
>
> Changing the default password [the one that is used when the machine is at
> the login prompt] remotely is difficult if not impossible. Also, by
default
> the password is stored unencrypted in the registry, so that any of your
> users could get the password and see what the president of the company was
> doing on his computer, including reading his emails as he types them,
forge
> emails, etc. I believe the password might be passed in plain text over
the
> network as well. I believe there are a few variations on VNC including a
> commercial version which may have handled these issues in some way.
>
> These are issues that will need to be resolved with any product you pick,
> but there are arguably more secure solutions out there than VNC that are
> also faster in screen response time.
>
>
>

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