RE: VNC

["Clark, Steve" <Steve () clarksupport com>]

Marty,

I use Tight VNC on the internal LAN in the small offices I manage as it's
easy to use and deploy. It allows for real time access to a PC that is
having problems (usually user related) without having to make the trip.
Keeping in mind the security issues - plain text password etc..., it does
what it was intended to do.

> From what I heard a few months back, there is supposed to be a new version
that uses NT security rather than the plain text of the current. What I do
is to use a generic non-admin ID/ password for access to the PC's. 

May not be the best solution for larger offices but works very well in the
smaller.

regards,

Steve Clark 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marty [mailto:marti () videotron ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:09 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: VNC

Hi,

I remember inquiring last year about VNC as a network remote control
solution. Sincere thanks to all those that answered. We stopped the VNC
implementation after reading about all the risks related to the product.


Our tech people are coming back and charging... again.

My question is simple is the latest version of VNC better than the
previous ones and should we allow our tech group to use it to take
control of our machines (servers and workstations)...

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:-)
 
Merci

Marty!