Re: VNC is freaking me out!

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" <[email protected]> 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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