Passwords in VNC Personal Edition for Windows

[James Weatherall]

Hi Garth,

When you sau "have had unexpected connections to their machines", can you be
more specific as to what exactly is happening?

Are the affected systems running VNC Personal Edition P4.2.3 or newer?

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Garth A. Reid
> Sent: 18 October 2006 17:57
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Passwords in VNC Personal Edition for Windows
> 
> I understand that RealVNC doesn't pass the password from the 
> Viewer to the
> Server in clear text. But I've had two instances where people 
> I've set up
> with RealVNC have had unexpected connections to their 
> machines. If these
> unauthorized users didn't pick up the passwords in clear text 
> transmissions,
> then how did they manage to connect? It appears that they 
> were able to get
> the password.
>   
> Thanks,
> Garth
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