How Secure is the GoToMyPC Remote Access Service?A board member asked to see the file, and you said, "Just a minute." That's because you have remote PC access. You must be a user of GoToMyPC. How else do you access your office computer when you are 1100 miles away?
Don't expect this remote PC access to be as fast as when you're sitting at your desk at home or in the office though. But one user sums it up nicely: "Even so, slow access is often better than no access." And those who have found themselves on a business trip and needing access to critical documents on their computer back in the office will realize how useful this is. A neat solutionImagine you're on a trip - across state or continent. You can call the office and tell a co-worker to log into your machine; find a document, and then fax that document to you - assuming it is printable data. If you do this, your co-worker back in the office now knows your password to get into your computer. If you're the boss, or if you are in charge of security-sensitive data, this may not be too wise - even with your secretary. They can now sneak into your machine and see all the private documents you have been keeping there. Convenience and Time Saving BenefitsWithout aborting your trip, however, you can get PC remote access by GoToMyPC, right back to the office and let your co-workers carry on with their work. Back home, you can leave the office early, attend that PTO conference with your child's teacher and finish off that report later - if you have time and the connection.
Remote Guest User FeatureAnother very cool feature of this service is that you can be at the office and allow someone at a remote location to view your document. This 'guest' service is controlled by you and is a great collaboration tool. It is a novel idea which you can try for free for one hour. Or, you may use it at $20 per month for a month or two, and drop the service whenever you want. There are no binding contracts to keep you for a year or two years! Multi-user plans with GoToMyPCTo me, this is a better alternative than buying some of those expensive programs that may be a bit fancier, but do pretty much the same thing. Also, the whole office can use this service. And there will be logging of the usage so you can always know who used the service, from where, and when. It's quite neat. How secure is GoToMyPC?A big question now is, "Will the cached information be there on the remote computer in London constitute a security risk after my co-worker, Travis closes the remote PC session in London?" Will some hacker be able to use the same machine after Travis logs off and find all his document and private information in temporary internet file caches? Is there adequate, tight security in this program? There won't be any security compromise with this program. The creators are one step ahead of the personal information scavengers. How does GoToMyPC secure a session? Well, there is a tiny program that lurks in the memory of the remote computer. This program wipes everything clean when the session terminates. Requirements for a sessionOf course, the base PC must be online in order to establish the remote session. If you have DSL or Cable service and your base PC is on you can launch into a session from the service website.
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