What do net attackers look for?

[JoeHill]

Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 

> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:48 PM, JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >  One thing I've noticed that is enabled by default with Ubuntu is
> > vino-server, to enable VNC clients to connect to your computer. The bad
> > news is it is apparently very difficult to stop it from running (runs at
> > login I think) and it cannot be uninstalled.  
> 
> No, it is not on by default...

Funny, I didn't turn it on and it's running at login for me. I don't have
'allow other users to access my desktop' checked in the config, but I cannot
shut it off. Then I read this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vino/+bug/141160

No expert me, but it seems to me that this bug means that vino-session will
automatically run vino-server at login, and that currently vino-server cannot
be shut off. Even killall won't take it out because vino-session will see that
it's not running and start it again.

-- 
JoeHill
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