VNC reported as spyware, "Ignore" does not affect it being reported

[Chris Cherry]

Two usability comments for feedback purposes:

We use TightVNC internally for remote control from our
support desk. MSASW reports it as spyware, which is
fine. It sets it's defualt response as "ignore" which is
great. What it does not do is take it off the alert
list -- it alerts on every scan, requiring a response.

Spybot - Search and Destroy is the benchmark we're using
for performance comparisons. It runs through 15MB of
files in about two and 1/2 minutes - and is 99%
effective. Our virus scanner seems to pick up the spares.

 

[dd]

I had a similar warning about RealVNC. By the way, I don't recall
it being reported as spyware, more like a vulnerability, and it is that.
After marking it as "ignore always", it doesn't warn me about it now.

~dd

"Chris Cherry"

 

[Kent W. England]

Chris Cherry wrote on 13-Jan-2005 6:23 AM:

Two usability comments for feedback purposes:

We use TightVNC internally for remote control from our
support desk. MSASW reports it as spyware, which is
fine. It sets it's defualt response as "ignore" which is
great. What it does not do is take it off the alert
list -- it alerts on every scan, requiring a response.

Spybot - Search and Destroy is the benchmark we're using
for performance comparisons. It runs through 15MB of
files in about two and 1/2 minutes - and is 99%
effective. Our virus scanner seems to pick up the spares.

"Ignore" really means "ignore this time". There is another setting for
"always ignore". It works.