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-----Original Message-----
From: Weary Trav
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 3:44 AM

Hello everyone,

<snip>

seek for help: Last night I accessed my computer though VNC, after
using it, I closed the ios app and went to sleep, and today morning
when I started using my office computer, I accidentally pressed
ctrl+v instead of ctrl+c while trying to copy some text and what I
noticed was that a message I had sent on my phone a few days ago
appeared on screen!

<snip>

Thanks in advance and regards,
Weary Traveller
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Weary:

VNC synchronizes the copy and paste buffers between the client and
the server; thus, the email U saw is probably in the clipboard of
your iPhone.

Thx, tanstaafl

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Hi Phillip

When you connect from VNC Viewer on your Android device to VNC Server on
your PC, the contents of their clipboards are shared. This is a feature
designed to enhance your productivity. See
http://www.realvnc.com/products/android/#transfer.

If you are concerned for the security of your clipboard data in
transmission, then you can encrypt connections. VNC Viewer for Android
comes with encryption capabilities built-in, but these are only enabled
for connections to VNC Server with a Personal or an Enterprise license. We
recommend you upgrade the VNC license on your PC; please note 30 day
trials are available from www.realvnc.com/products/vnc/licensing.

Regards
Linda Hawksworth
RealVNC Customer Support

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-----Original Message-----
From: vnc-list-bounces@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-bounces@realvnc.com]
On Behalf Of Long, Phillip GOSS
Sent: 06 December 2012 14:50
To: vnc-list@realvnc.com
Subject: RE: VNC is freaking me out!

-----Original Message-----
From: Weary Trav
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 3:44 AM

Hello everyone,

<snip>

seek for help: Last night I accessed my computer though VNC, after using
it, I closed the ios app and went to sleep, and today morning when I
started using my office computer, I accidentally pressed
ctrl+v instead of ctrl+c while trying to copy some text and what I
noticed was that a message I had sent on my phone a few days ago appeared
on screen!

<snip>

Thanks in advance and regards,
Weary Traveller
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Weary:

VNC synchronizes the copy and paste buffers between the client and the
server; thus, the email U saw is probably in the clipboard of your iPhone.

Thx, tanstaafl

--------------------------------------------------------

Goss ... Innovation for Business

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proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its
subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely
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may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the
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may be construed by this e-mail.


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On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Weary Trav wrote:

> A few months ago I started using VNC in order to access my office
> computer from my Iphone 4. Since I have started using it, I have noticed
> that at times my command prompt opens up all of a sudden and it starts
> executing some commands that I have not entered.


Anyone? Doesn't that mean he's been hacked? I can't think of another
explanation for that.

Mike

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I believe you are correct. I have only seen this when someone hacked into the system and was actually using it to send spam, etc.
Secure the system, find the backdoor program likely installed. Password everything. Change all passwords.

This stopped it for us.

On Dec 6, 2012, at 03:59 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Weary Trav wrote:

> A few months ago I started using VNC in order to access my office computer from my Iphone 4. Since I have started using it, I have noticed that at times my command prompt opens up all of a sudden and it starts executing some commands that I have not entered.


Anyone? Doesn't that mean he's been hacked? I can't think of another explanation for that.

Mike

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Probably not.

There was some stuff he had on the clipboard of the iPhone that he didn't realise, connected to the host, the clip boards sync up and there it is, on the hosts clipboard.

Why are you lot so 'wanting' the problem to be 'he's been hacked!'?

Computers are machines, no different than lawn mowers. They do what they are told, "EXACTLY what they are told". They don't do what you want them to do, they do what you tell them to do. There is a big difference between the two.

Most problems are the result of misunderstanding how the sw works, like in this case.

I'm fairly sure the question has been answered and we can move on.

Cheers,
John


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On 7 Dec, 2012, at 5:21 PM, "Mike Miller" <mbmiller+l@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Weary Trav wrote:
>
>> A few months ago I started using VNC in order to access my office computer from my Iphone 4. Since I have started using it, I have noticed that at times my command prompt opens up all of a sudden and it starts executing some commands that I have not entered.
>
>
> Anyone? Doesn't that mean he's been hacked? I can't think of another explanation for that.
>
> Mike
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Let's be careful to not conflate two issues: if you disconnect from a
server the clipboard won't be cleared. However, the arbitrary execution
of commands in a spontaneously opened console definitely seems
suspicious to me. Certainly worthy of yanking the ethernet until I'd run
a full disinfect and malware scan.

On 08/12/2012 00:55, John Serink wrote:
> Probably not.
>
> There was some stuff he had on the clipboard of the iPhone that he didn't realise, connected to the host, the clip boards sync up and there it is, on the hosts clipboard.
>
> Why are you lot so 'wanting' the problem to be 'he's been hacked!'?
>
> Computers are machines, no different than lawn mowers. They do what they are told, "EXACTLY what they are told". They don't do what you want them to do, they do what you tell them to do. There is a big difference between the two.
>
> Most problems are the result of misunderstanding how the sw works, like in this case.
>
> I'm fairly sure the question has been answered and we can move on.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 7 Dec, 2012, at 5:21 PM, "Mike Miller" <mbmiller+l@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Weary Trav wrote:
>>
>>> A few months ago I started using VNC in order to access my office computer from my Iphone 4. Since I have started using it, I have noticed that at times my command prompt opens up all of a sudden and it starts executing some commands that I have not entered.
>>
>> Anyone? Doesn't that mean he's been hacked? I can't think of another explanation for that.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, John Serink wrote:

> Probably not.
>
> There was some stuff he had on the clipboard of the iPhone that he
> didn't realise, connected to the host, the clip boards sync up and there
> it is, on the hosts clipboard.

I was responding specifically to a different part of his message:

>>> I have noticed that at times my command prompt opens up all of a
>>> sudden and it starts executing some commands that I have not entered.


> Why are you lot so 'wanting' the problem to be 'he's been hacked!'?

I don't want anything, but I don't know what could cause that.


> Computers are machines, no different than lawn mowers. They do what they
> are told, "EXACTLY what they are told". They don't do what you want them
> to do, they do what you tell them to do. There is a big difference
> between the two.

But he said the computer was "executing commands that I have not entered."
This would be like the lawn mower going down the street and mowing someone
else's lawn. But thanks for teaching us how computers work.

Mike


> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 7 Dec, 2012, at 5:21 PM, "Mike Miller" <mbmiller+l@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Weary Trav wrote:
>>
>>> A few months ago I started using VNC in order to access my office
>>> computer from my Iphone 4. Since I have started using it, I have
>>> noticed that at times my command prompt opens up all of a sudden and
>>> it starts executing some commands that I have not entered.
>>
>>
>> Anyone? Doesn't that mean he's been hacked? I can't think of another
>> explanation for that.
>>
>> Mike

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