What do net attackers look for?

[Jamon Camisso]

JoeHill wrote:
> 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.

chmod -x /usr/lib/vino/vino-server should do the trick then.

Jamon

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