On The Furrygoat Experience, I read that Steve loves having a remote desktop on his Windows machines. While enabling remote desktop provides good flexibility in the ability to work from anywhere, any place, I feel that I must point out the following:

Microsoft Security Advisory (904797)
Vulnerability in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Could Lead to Denial of Service
Published: July 16, 2005

Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Remote Desktop Services.
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Our initial investigation has revealed that a denial of service vulnerability exists that could allow an attacker to send a specially crafted Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) request to an affected system.
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The Internet Storm Center also discussed this vulnerability in their July 16th diary. Even worse, on July 14th, they wrote:

The vulnerability in due to a flaw in the remote desktop assistant. This service is NOT FIREWALLED in XP SP2's default firewall configuration.