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From: bzs@theworld.com
To: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist@gmail.com>
Cc: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: XLanuch.exe is a Trojan-It allows remote control of my pc without my knowledge or permission
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 22:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22868.10096.929488.407450@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACoZoo13PwvqZ6p6kuUAggTfBW0sF3absub0i7rFBXz50vLk5A@mail.gmail.com>


I would also think about X11 permissions. Someone might be scanning
for activity on port 6000 (&c) and if they find something and it's not
locked down (see for example 'xhost(1)') it's trivial to just launch
X11 apps on your system which can cause all sorts of mischief.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-28 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-28 16:07 Sagar Kapadia
2017-06-28 16:21 ` Erik Soderquist
2017-06-28 16:55   ` Brian Inglis
2017-06-28 22:03   ` bzs [this message]
2017-06-28 22:13     ` Dan Kegel

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