[X4U] Remote access to sleeping machine

[Richard Clark]

i think it can be awaken with something called a magic packet.

Richard

On 24/lug/05, at 20:09, Ed Graf wrote:

> I hope someone can answer this question.
>
> A friend of mine with a G5 iMac was concerned that, should he leave  
> his sleeping computer with an always on connection to the internet,  
> could someone, somehow, log onto and somehow invade his computer?
>
> I have remotely connected to _my_ computer, but it has always been  
> awake to start with.
>
> If one can successfully log onto a sleeping computer, what can one  
> do to immunize oneself from such an occurrence, short of turning  
> off the machine?  I showed him the built-in firewall, but, I  
> suspect I was not clear enough on what to do.
>
> Thank you very much, in advance,
>
> Ed