Re: [opensuse] XVNC Activating itself -- sign of scurity breach?

* David McMillan <skyefire@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [05-30-07 21:36]:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* David McMillan <skyefire@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [05-30-07 20:56]:
In the past two months, I've had two incidents where, when I ran 'top,'
I found XVNC running (and taking up a good 75% of my CPU), for no
apparent reason on my 10.2 system.
Now, I have "Remote Desktop Sharing" turned on on this machine (though
I've never been able to get VNC to connect across the LAN from my WXP
laptop -- only browsing to http://host:5801 works so far), but at
neither of these incidents had I been using, or even attempting to use,
a VNC or RD connection to the 10.2 machine, at any time in the recent
past.

You *are* using vnc, http://host:5801 is a vnc connection.

Yes, I know -- what I meant was, *at the time of the incidents,* I
hadn't made any VNC connection attempts, via HTTP or otherwise, in
*days,* if not weeks. There were definitely no VNC connections being
made from any of *my* machines on my LAN. That's what's puzzling (and
worrying me) about seeing XVNC active, and eating up so much CPU.

man vnc

rpm -ql vnc

there is a server, client, viewer, .....


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