RE: removing IP address history

2006-10-25 Thread Kumar, Siva
Could you send it to the list.. -siva -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tyran Ormond Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:11 AM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: removing IP address history On 02:45 PM 10/25/2006 +0200, it would

Re: removing IP address history

2006-10-25 Thread Tyran Ormond
On 02:45 PM 10/25/2006 +0200, it would appear that Seak wrote: I'd like to see a case in which VNC viewer can write to registry but no .reg can be merged (no matter which part of registry it's about). I'd like to see how the admin could achieve this level of twisting :) Proof of concept sen

Re: removing IP address history

2006-10-25 Thread Seak
Tyran Ormond wrote: > On 10:55 AM 10/23/2006 +0100, it would appear that James Weatherall > wrote: >> Hi "teh.asbo", >> >> Thanks for posting this handy tip. :) > Note that if the administrator is smart and doesn't want you messing > with the registry (as any semi-intelligent network admin would),

RE: removing IP address history

2006-10-23 Thread Tyran Ormond
On 03:58 PM 10/23/2006 +0100, it would appear that James Weatherall wrote: Tyran, Note that disabling regedit.exe is _not_ a security-measure. It's simply a way of reducing the likelihood of the user messing up their user settings & causing themselves problems. While you may not consider it s

RE: removing IP address history

2006-10-23 Thread James Weatherall
gt; [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tyran Ormond > Sent: 23 October 2006 15:08 > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com > Subject: RE: removing IP address history > > On 10:55 AM 10/23/2006 +0100, it would appear that James > Weatherall wrote: > >Hi "teh.asbo", > > >

RE: removing IP address history

2006-10-23 Thread Tyran Ormond
On 10:55 AM 10/23/2006 +0100, it would appear that James Weatherall wrote: Hi "teh.asbo", Thanks for posting this handy tip. :) Note that if the administrator is smart and doesn't want you messing with the registry (as any semi-intelligent network admin would), regedit has likely been disab

RE: removing IP address history

2006-10-23 Thread James Weatherall
No. Why would you need that? Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harold Fuchs > Sent: 23 October 2006 09:15 > To: Max Moroz; vnc-list@realvnc.com > Subject: Re: removing IP address history >

Re: removing IP address history

2006-10-23 Thread Harold Fuchs
Presumably you need to be an Administrator to do this ??? Harold Fuchs London, England On Monday, October 23, 2006 10:55 AM [GMT+1=CET], James Weatherall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi "teh.asbo", > > Thanks for posting this handy tip. :) > > Cheers, > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > > >> To fix y

Re: removing IP address history

2006-10-23 Thread Max Moroz
Apologies to Wez and other devs for being impolite... It was in the spur of a moment... Thanks teh_asbo, this suggestion works (the public machine didn't let non-admin users run regedit, but still lets them modify registry with this approach). In response to Harold, yes it's a viewer on a publ

RE: removing IP address history

2006-10-23 Thread James Weatherall
Hi "teh.asbo", Thanks for posting this handy tip. :) Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > To fix your problem, fire up notepad, and paste in the > following three > lines: > > Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 > > [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RealVNC\VNCViewer4\MRU] > > and save it as anything

Re: removing IP address history

2006-10-23 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Sunday, October 22, 2006 9:26 AM [GMT+1=CET], Max Moroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm used RealVNC on a public computer, and found out an absolutely > terrible thing. RealVNC by default stores all the IP addresses you > type in there. > Just out of curiosity ... Are you running the serv

Re: removing IP address history

2006-10-22 Thread ·· ħþø ··
Max Moroz wrote: Eh? I didnt mean to put sensitive info on a public computer. I expected RealVNC to just run, and not store anything on the machine. Or in the worst case, leave a file with settings that I can easily erase. If you use web email on a public computer, and found that it left your

Re: removing IP address history

2006-10-22 Thread Dbag
Max Moroz wrote: Eh? I didnt mean to put sensitive info on a public computer. I expected RealVNC to just run, and not store anything on the machine. Or in the worst case, leave a file with settings that I can easily erase. If you use web email on a public computer, and found that it left your

Re: removing IP address history

2006-10-22 Thread Max Moroz
Eh? I didnt mean to put sensitive info on a public computer. I expected RealVNC to just run, and not store anything on the machine. Or in the worst case, leave a file with settings that I can easily erase. If you use web email on a public computer, and found that it left your last letter saved

Re: removing IP address history

2006-10-22 Thread ·· ħþø ··
Max Moroz wrote: P.S. If you think I'm exaggerating the problem.. think about it.. You advertise your IP address on a public computer, AND ALSO the fact that you run VNC server there. If you have static IP (say, cable internet), you will quite possibly have willing and able hackers going after

removing IP address history

2006-10-22 Thread Max Moroz
I'm used RealVNC on a public computer, and found out an absolutely terrible thing. RealVNC by default stores all the IP addresses you type in there. The worst thing is that I can't even deactivate that feature. After wasting 40 minutes going through all options, reading documentation, and search