Re: A funny way to DOS pcANYWHERE8.0 and 9.0

[christopher () SCHULTE ORG (Christopher Schulte)]

At 09:35 AM 4/9/00 +0000, you wrote:
> i found a funny thing about pcANYWHERE.
> when we use pcANYWHERE remote control client to connect the
> host running pcANYWHERE, at first the statu bar appears
> "pcANYWHERE connecting..." ,then the login window will
> appear;
> but if we press "Cancel" before the login window appears,
> the pcANYWHERE service will be crashed. We can't connect
> the host via pcANYWHERE client any longer.

I had to repeat the 'connect, cancel, wait, reconnect, cancel, wait,
reconnect' process a few times to successfully crash the service.  The
first time I waited a few seconds to see if it would restart itself.... and
it did!  I was able to connect again.  But when I did the same DoS again,
it never came back.

> if host running pcANYWHERE 9.0, We can restore the service
> by the following steps:
> telnet host 5631
> appers:
> }
> Please press <Enter>...
>
> then press Enter
> We can connect pcANYWHERE now :)

Not on my end:

[schulte@unix-box schulte]$ telnet win.box.with.pca9 5631
Trying win.box.with.pca9...
Connected to win.box.with.pca9.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

I was unable to restart the service via this method.  Since this machine
was local to me, it's not an issue.  However, this could present some
obvious problems with my various co-located boxes.......

I assume symantec has been contacted?


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