Re: RealVNC / Windows 2000 Security

You may want to consider using UltraVNC, which has better security
features than RealVNC.  Another option is to use SSH (cygwin) on the
Windows hosts, bind VNC to LOCALHOST only, and use ssh port forwarding
to get to the VNC server.

Either of these methods would make your remote access more secure.

Unfortunately, I don't have the original email, so if I'm answering
the wrong question, I apologize.

Jonathan G.


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:31:05 -0700, Jordan Dohms
<jordan.dohms@net-linx.com> wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> > My software company currently uses two specific machines
> > (both running Windows 2000 Pro) as "VNC" machines.
> > The purpose for these machines is to display two of our software
> > products, and allow remote login to
>
> Maybe it's not feasible in your situation, and it also may not solve the
> entire problem, but an option you could look at is, disabling outbound
> Internet access (on your firewall) from that machine's IP, to all ports
> except VNC.  That should prevent much of the downloading of adware and such.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Jordan


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